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copyright Callman Rawley [the name Rakosi adopted early in his life, with hopes that a less ethnic sounding name would make him more employable]

4″ x 10″ broadside on card stock

limited letterpress edition of 500 published by Arthur Mann Kaye in Rocky Mount, NC & printed at Piedmont Printers, Durham, NC

text in black ink with liner in red ink

The Objectivist poet Carl Rakosi (1893-2004), born in Germany, came to the U.S. when he was 17. His Selected Poems was published in 1941 and he did not publish another book until 1967, when New Directions published Amulet. His collected poems appeared in 1987. 

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