Michael Heller right. Photo by Lawrence Schwartzwald.
Michael Heller’s This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965–2010 is a culmination of over forty years of poetic exploration by a major voice in contemporary poetry. From his experimental poems of the 1960s to the more assured (though no less experimental) work of recent decades, Heller’s poems wrestle with all the implications of “history and the constellated night,” as he writes in “Gloss.”[1]
Carl Rakosi, San Francisco, March 1989, photo John Tranter
Poet Carl Rakosi died on Friday afternoon 25 June 2004 at the age of 100, after a series of strokes, in his home in San Francisco. [Some eight months before,] My wife Lyn and I were passing through California in November 2003, and we stopped by to have a coffee with Carl at his home in Sunset. By a lucky coincidence, it happened to be his 100th birthday. He was, as always, kind, thoughtful, bright and alert, and as sharp as a pin. We felt privileged to know him. Here are some poems and other bits and pieces in Jacket magazine, starting with a poem from Carl in 1996:
[»»] Poem: “The Citizen" [»»] Carl Rakosi in conversation with Tom Devaney, with Olivier Brossard [»»] Carl Rakosi: audio recordings at U Penn (a note from Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania)
International Symposium organised by Cristina GIORCELLI, Luigi MAGNO Centro di Studi italo-francesiSala Capizucchipiazza di Campitelli, 3 – Roma 17-18 MAY 2012
Carl Rakosi, 1903-2004
In Jacket 1 and Jacket 25
Poet Carl Rakosi died on Friday afternoon 25 June 2004 at the age of 100, after a series of strokes, in his home in San Francisco. [Some eight months before,] My wife Lyn and I were passing through California in November 2003, and we stopped by to have a coffee with Carl at his home in Sunset. By a lucky coincidence, it happened to be his 100th birthday. He was, as always, kind, thoughtful, bright and alert, and as sharp as a pin. We felt privileged to know him.
Here are some poems and other bits and pieces in Jacket magazine, starting with a poem from Carl in 1996:
[»»] Poem: “The Citizen"
[»»] Carl Rakosi in conversation with Tom Devaney, with Olivier Brossard
[»»] Carl Rakosi: audio recordings at U Penn (a note from Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania)