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September 9, 1999 |
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The Unitarian Center, San Francisco |
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English |
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Alongside such luminaries as Louis Zukoksky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi is a contributor to the poetic output that, in the history of American poetics, is known as "Objectivist." In one of several events marking the centennial year of San Francisco State University, Rakosi reads "Instructions to the Player," "The China Policy," "The Clarinet Runs Up a Water Ladder Quicker than the Soul Past Gravity," "Lying in Bed on a Summer Morning," "The Glass of Madeira," "Young Couple Strolling By," "In the Fall When the Apple is on the Tree . . .," "Ode to a Nightingale," "What's in a Name," "Country Epitaphs," "Manhattan 1975," "A Life," "What is Money? How Does it Get That Way?," "Museum of Historical Objects: New Acquisition," an excerpt from the suite "Wars Wars Wars," "Down to Earth," "Field Notes," "The Old Sparrow," "The Bottom Line," "The Actors," "Modern Narrative," "Atomic Man Streamed into the Cosmos on a Mathematical Formula . . .," and "Ballad of the Diminished I." In his debut as Director of The Poetry Center, Steve Dickison introduces Rakosi. |