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Carl Rakosi, “Poem” from The Collected Poems of Carl Rakosi (Orono: The National Poetry Foundation, 1986). Copyright © 1986 by Carl Rakosi. Reprinted with the permission of Marilyn J. Kane.
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Poet Carl Rakosi 1903–2004
SCHOOL / PERIOD Objectivist
Subjects Living
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
The son of German Jewish parents, Carl Rakosi was born in Berlin in 1903, moving soon to Hungary following his parents’ separation in 1904. Immigrating with his father and stepmother to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1910, he eventually graduated from the University of Wisconsin (where he edited the literary magazine) and later earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania. Rakosi’s involvement in the . . .
Poems by Carl Rakosi
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SUBJECT Living
SCHOOL / PERIOD Objectivist
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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