More on Carl Rakosi, “Oldest major poet in U.S. dies at 100”
Friday July 2, 2004
from The San Francisco Chronicle:
“Carl Rakosi, 1903-2004, S.F. poet who never seemed old”
from The San Jose Mercury News:
“Carl Rakosi, 100, poet said to have inspired the Beats”
by Myrna Oliver, Los Angeles Times
Rakosi is remembered as a charming & witty man “who at age 99 was still hosting dinner parties where talk was animated, ranging from poetry to politics”... and as a poet whose work was eloquent, honest & unadorned, “unfiltered, laconic and infused with self-effacing humor.” Rakosi kept on writing right up to the end of his life: his companion told reporters that “only three weeks before his death had shipped off a batch of new poems to the New York Review of Books.” To sample his poems, visit our library of 20th century poets.
Related resources:
Carl Rakosi, 1903 - 2004
“Carl Rakosi, 1903-2004, S.F. poet who never seemed old”
from The San Jose Mercury News:
“Carl Rakosi, 100, poet said to have inspired the Beats”
by Myrna Oliver, Los Angeles Times
Rakosi is remembered as a charming & witty man “who at age 99 was still hosting dinner parties where talk was animated, ranging from poetry to politics”... and as a poet whose work was eloquent, honest & unadorned, “unfiltered, laconic and infused with self-effacing humor.” Rakosi kept on writing right up to the end of his life: his companion told reporters that “only three weeks before his death had shipped off a batch of new poems to the New York Review of Books.” To sample his poems, visit our library of 20th century poets.
Related resources:
Carl Rakosi, 1903 - 2004
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