Carl Rakosi

readings in photocopied handout:

  • "An Interview with Carl Rakosi," conducted by George Evans and August Kleinzahler (from Man and Poet)
  • Andrew Crozier, "Carl Rakosi in the 'Objectivists' Epoch" (from Man and Poet)
  • "Apparition in a Bus"
  • "In a Bar"
  • "To an Anti-Semite"
  • "How to Be with a Rock"
  • "Abstractions on a Child / Sixteenth Century"
  • "In What Sense I am I"
  • "Image"
  • "The China Policy"
  • "To the Non-Political Citizen" (from Selected Poems 1941)
  • "The Winter Garden" (from SP)
  • "Waiting for a Poem" (from SP)
  • "Emmanuel Hocquard, Gazette du Lecteur, Asks Me for a Poem of Not More Than 55 Typewritten Characters and Spaces"
  • "Punk Rock"
  • "Amulet"
  • "The Nature of Yellow"
  • "Americana"
  • "Oats"
  • "1924"
  • "New Orleans Transient Bureau, 1934"
  • "A Reminder of William Carlos Williams"
  • "Coca Cola Sign"
  • "No Passaran"
  • "The Sense of History"
  • "Objectivist Lamp"
  • "Oh, Sestina"
  • part V of "The Old Poet's Tale"