Carl Rakosi Papers
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Carl Rakosi Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0355
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California, 92093-0175
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
8.2 Linear feet
(18 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1903-2004
Abstract: Papers of Carl Rakosi, American poet and social worker, who professionally practiced psychotherapy under the name Callman
Rawley. Rakosi was known for his association with the Objectivist movement as well as other Jewish writers. The collection
contains correspondence, prose, poems, book reviews, and extensive interviews with Rakosi.
Creator:
Rakosi, Carl, 1903-2004
Related Materials
Additional Carl Rakosi materials are located in the David Ignatow Papers (MSS 2), United Artists Archive (MSS 12), George
Oppen Papers (MSS 16), Clayton Eshleman Papers (MSS 21), Sun and Moon Archive (MSS 221), and Charley George Papers (MSS 387).
Significant portions of Rakosi's papers are also located at the University of Texas, Austin, the Houghton Library at Harvard
University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (see correspondence in case file).
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of Carl Rakosi, American poet and social worker, who professionally practiced psychotherapy under the name Callman
Rawley. Rakosi was known for his association with the Objectivist movement as well as other Jewish writers. The collection
contains correspondence, prose, poems, book reviews, and extensive interviews with Rakosi, as well as journal articles, case
histories and notes that document his work as a psychotherapist during the decades when he withdrew from the publishing world.
Included are typescripts and photocopies of poems for
The Collected Poems of Carl Rakosi and page proofs for
The Old Poet's Tale (1999). The collection represents the part he played as a young poet in the Objectivist movement, with copies of correspondence
with other Objectivist poets such as Louis Zukofsky, and essays written by Rakosi much later on the impact of that literary
moment, such as "The Objectivist Connection" which explains the origin of the term "Objectivist." The collection contains
worksheets for poems, audio and videocassette recordings of readings and interviews, and drafts of printed interviews.
Accession Processed in 1996
Materials primarily documenting Rakosi's writings from 1988-1995, as well as his career as a psychotherapist and social worker.
Arranged in four series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) WRITINGS BY RAKOSI and 4) WRITINGS BY OTHERS.
Accessions Processed in 2003
Includes correspondence (including important early correspondence from the 1930s, as well as more recent letters), worksheets
for poems, tapes of readings and interviews with Rakosi, drafts of printed interviews, and materials related to Rakosi's readings
and lectures from approximately 1973-1999.
Arranged in five series: 5) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 6) CORRESPONDENCE, 7) WRITINGS BY RAKOSI, 8) RECORDINGS and 9) ORIGINALS
OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.
Accession Processed in 2005
Includes more recent correspondence (though it does contain excerpts of important early correspondence from the 1930s with
other writers and family members), substantial folders of source material and drafts of poems in progress, materials related
to Rakosi's 100th birthday, and memorials.
Arranged in three series: 10) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 11) CORRESPONDENCE and 12) WRITINGS BY RAKOSI.
Biography
Carl Rakosi was born on November 6, 1903, in Berlin, Germany, and came to the United States with his father and stepmother
in 1910. He received his B.A. (1924) and M.A. (1926) from the University of Wisconsin, and completed his Masters of Social
Work at the University of Pennsylvania in 1940. He married Leah Jaffe in 1939.
During the thirties, Rakosi was a member of a group of poets called "The Objectivists," which included Louis Zukofsky, Charles
Reznikoff, and George Oppen. Between 1939 and 1965, he stopped writing in order to devote himself to social work and psychotherapy.
It was not until 1965, at the urging of Andrew Crozier, that Rakosi started to write again. Rakosi practiced social work and
psychotherapy as Callman Rawley, his legally adopted professional name. Between 1945 and his retirement in 1968, Rakosi was
Executive Director of the Jewish Family and Children's Service in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also conducted a private practice
in psychotherapy between 1955 and 1971.
As an important Objectivist poet, Rakosi's style of writing can be summarized by Stanley Cooperman's comment: "What Rakosi
has, delightfully, is an ability to translate emotion into objects, tastes, smells: and these, in turn, are completely familiar-
except that the familiarity occurs in unexpected juxtapositions of sound and theme...Rakosi's work is at once irreverent and
serious; highly intellectual and simplistic."
His published works include SELECTED POEMS (1941), AMULET (1967), ERE-VOICE (1971), EX CRANIUM, NIGHT (1975), MY EXPERIENCE
IN PARNASSUS (1977), SPIRITUS I (1983), COLLECTED POEMS (1986), THE EARTH SUITE (1997), and THE OLD POET'S TALE (1999). Besides
his literary work, including poetry, essays and book reviews, Rakosi also published articles and reviews on social work and
psychology.
In 2003, Rakosi's 100th birthday celebration was marked by several poets--including Anselm Hollo, Lyn Hejinian, George Evans
and others--reading from their own work at Rakosi's request. Until his death on June 24, 2004, Rakosi continued to develop
new poems and to correspond with younger writers interested in his and other Objectivists' work.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Carl Rakosi Papers, MSS 0355. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1995-2011.
Access
Materials contained in Box 5, Folders 9-11 are restricted until the year 2070 according to federal and state laws. Media is
restricted. Researchers may request user copies be produced.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Auxeméry, Jean-Paul -- Correspondence
Biggs, Mary -- Correspondence
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- -- Correspondence
Corman, Cid -- Correspondence
Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002 -- Correspondence
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau -- Correspondence
George, Kathi -- Correspondence
Heller, Michael, 1937- -- Correspondence
Oppen, George
Prynne, J. H., 1936- -- Correspondence
Rakosi, Carl, 1903-2004 -- Archives
Steiner, Flora -- Correspondence
American poetry -- 20th century
Accession Processed in 1996
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Miscellaneous and B) Interviews.
A) Miscellaneous: Materials related to Rakosi's education and business, including transcripts, business cards and curriculum
vitae.
B) Interviews: Drafts and printed copies of interviews and writings about Rakosi, including some which are focused on the
larger groups with which Rakosi is often associated, such as the Objectivists and Jewish writers. This subseries is arranged
alphabetically by the author's (or interviewer's) last name.
Box 1, Folder 2
Certificates and academic transcripts
1910 - 1953
Box 1, Folder 4
Professional profile of Callman Rawley
1968 - 1990
General note
Includes newspaper clippings.
Box 1, Folder 5
Cohn, Jim. "A conversation with Carl Rakosi"
General note
Published in BOMBAY GIN, Summer 1988.
Box 1, Folder 6
Conversation with Carl Rakosi
1994
General note
"Some of the questions put to me at Poet's House." Contains only the questions asked.
Box 1, Folder 7
Evans, George and August Kleinzahler - "An interview with Carl Rakosi"
1986
General note
Correspondence and proofs of interview published in CONJUNCTIONS 11.
Box 1, Folder 8
Rosenblum, Martin J. "Carl Rakosi: An Interview"
General note
Published in MARGINS, no.17, 1975. Published copy, annotated by Rakosi.
Box 1, Folder 9
Shaw, Mary Ellen
General note
"We're not supposed to be guides to the world: A conversation with Carl Rakosi." Published in PREVIEW, June 1975. Photocopy.
Box 1, Folder 10
Shoemaker, Steve
1981
General note
Correspondence and typescript.
Box 1, Folder 11
Sommers, Piotr
General note
Typescript, annotated by Rakosi.
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Literary and professional correspondence, including carbon copies of Rakosi's replies. Notable correspondents
include Jean-Paul Auxemery, who translated many of Rakosi's poems into French, Cid Corman, Andrew Crozier, Kathi George and
Michael Heller. Also represented are exchanges with the editors of numerous poetry magazines. Finally, Rakosi's early life
is reflected in the letters of his first girlfriend, Mary Biggs, and his mother, Flora Steiner. Arranged alphabetically by
correspondent.
Box 1, Folder 12
Unidentified correspondents
Box 1, Folder 14
AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW
1992
Box 1, Folder 15
Another Chicago Press
1994
Box 1, Folder 16
Auxemery, Jean-Paul
1989 - 1991
Box 1, Folder 18
Bacon, Sydney
1989 - 1990
Box 1, Folder 20
Bernstein, Maurice
1989 - 1994
Box 1, Folder 22
Black Sparrow Press (John Martin)
1992
Box 1, Folder 24
Burwash, Nathaniel
1990 - 1994
Box 1, Folder 26
Caddel, Richard
1988 - 1994
Box 1, Folder 28
Codrescu, Andrei
1992 - 1994
Box 2, Folder 1
Crozier, Andrew
1989 - 1993
Box 2, Folder 3
Dawson, Fielding
1990 - 1995
Box 2, Folder 4
Dennis, Rodney G. (Harvard University Library)
1978 - 1982
Box 2, Folder 6
Dominguez Rey, Antonio
1990
Box 2, Folder 7
Duggan, Laurie
1989 - 1991
Box 2, Folder 8
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau
1989 - 1994
Box 2, Folder 10
Ebin, Jennifer and Julie
1989 - 1991
Box 2, Folder 16
George, Kathi
1990 - 1992
Box 2, Folder 18
Gilonis, Harry
1990 - 1993
Box 2, Folder 19
Griffin, Jonathan
1986 - 1993
Box 2, Folder 21
Haberman, Daniel and Barbara
1989 - 1994
Box 2, Folder 22
Hamburger, Michael
1989 - 1990
Box 2, Folder 23
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
1993
Box 2, Folder 24
Heller, Michael
1987 - 1994
Box 2, Folder 32
Kessler, Milton
1990 - 1992
Box 2, Folder 33
King, Martha and Basil
1989 - 1994
Box 2, Folder 34
Kleinzahler, August
1989 - 1990
Box 2, Folder 36
Lebensohn, Zigmond M.
1992
Box 3, Folder 1
Lieberman, E. James
1992 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 3
MARGIN (Robin Magowan)
1988
Box 3, Folder 4
Marshall, Jack
1990 - 1992
Box 3, Folder 8
Naropa Institute
1991 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 9
National Poetry Festival (Keith Anderson)
1973
General note
Includes an index of Rakosi's audio tapes recorded at the festival.
Box 3, Folder 10
NEW AMERICAN WRITING (Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff)
1989 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 13
Pacernick, Gary
1993 - 1994
Box 3, Folder 14
Peterson, David
1992 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 15
Prynne, Jeremy
1988 - 1994
Box 3, Folder 17
Rakosi (stepmother)
1940 - 1941
Box 3, Folder 18
Rosenblum, Martin Jack
1989 - 1991
Box 3, Folder 21
Rudolf, Anthony
1988 - 1991
Box 3, Folder 24
Serendipity Books
1973 - 1978
Box 3, Folder 25
Shoemaker, Steve
1992 - 1994
Box 3, Folder 27
Szegedy-Maszak, Mihaly
1989 - 1990
Box 3, Folder 29
TALISMAN (Ed Foster)
1989 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 31
Tranter, John
1989 - 1991
Box 3, Folder 33
Trip to London and France
1989
Box 3, Folder 34
Turnbull, Gael
1989 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 36
University Library of Wisconsin - Madison
1978 - 1979
Box 3, Folder 37
University of California, Berkeley
1992 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 38
University of California, San Diego
1985 - 1987
Box 3, Folder 39
University of Virginia. Hillel Jewish Student Center
1991
WRITINGS BY RAKOSI
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 3) WRITINGS BY RAKOSI. Arranged in four subseries: A) Lectures, B) Prose, C) Poetry and D) Social Work and Psychotherapy.
A) Lectures: Notes and correspondence for two poetry lectures.
B) Prose: Essays on Objectivist poets, including Charles Reznikoff and George Oppen; a short essay, "The Objectivist Connection,"
that explains the origin of the term Objectivist; first draft and source materials for Rakosi's unpublished autobiography.
C) Poetry: Typescripts and photocopies of poems for
The Collected Poems of Carl Rakosi and an annotated proof for
Poems, 1923-1941; drafts of miscellaneous poems in various stages of development; and some of Rakosi's contributions to Jewish liturgy.
D) Social Work and Psychotherapy: Callman Rawley's journal articles and book reviews, as well as notes and analysis on patient
interviews.
Box 4, Folder 1
Lecture on George Oppen at The Poetry Center
1994
General note
Notes and correspondence.
Box 4, Folder 2
Lecture on "Psychology of the Poet" at Jefferson College, Michigan
General note
Notes, ca. 1970s.
Box 4, Folder 3
Literary agreements
1974 - 1980
Box 4, Folder 4
Autobiography (Part I)
General note
Data and primary sources.
Box 4, Folder 5
Autobiography (Part II)
General note
Data and primary sources.
Box 4, Folder 6
Autobiography
General note
First draft.
Box 4, Folder 8
Charles Reznikoff: A Tribute
General note
Magazine clipping from MARGINS, nos. 28-30, 1976.
Box 4, Folder 9
Comments on Sorrentino's THE ORANGERY
Box 4, Folder 10
From Sixth Session on Writing
General note
A lecture on language given at the Naropa Institute and published in ROCKY LEDGE 5, July/August 1980.
Box 4, Folder 11
George Oppen, the last days
Box 4, Folder 12
George Oppen, 1908-1984
General note
Obituary article published in J.A.C.O.B.'S. LETTER: THE JEWISH QUARTERLY OF THE ARTS FOR SAN FRANCISCO AND THE BAY AREA, vol.
V, no. 1, January-March 1985.
Box 4, Folder 13
Kiesel, Stanley. THE PEARL IS A HARDENED SINNER
General note
Forward by Rakosi.
Box 4, Folder 14
New Forms - Introductory Statement
General note
Published in THE POETRY PROJECT, #129, Summer Issue, 1988.
Box 4, Folder 15
Objectivist Connection
General note
Two page typescript on the origin of the term "Objectivist." Also included are notes, drafts, and articles for the essay.
Box 4, Folder 16
Observations
General note
Photocopy of typescript.
Box 4, Folder 17
Poetry book reviews written by Rakosi
General note
Published in the MINNEAPOLIS STAR AND TRIBUNE. Newspaper clippings and typescript drafts.
Box 4, Folder 19
Royaumont: A Few Observations
General note
Magazine clipping from POETRY FLASH, no.204, March 1990. Included is correspondence related to Rakosi's article on the Conference
on the American Objectivists held at Royaumont, France in September 1989.
Box 4, Folder 20
COLLECTED POEMS OF CARL RAKOSI
General note
Typescripts and photocopies of poems (Part I).
Box 4, Folder 21
COLLECTED POEMS OF CARL RAKOSI
General note
Typescripts and photocopies of poems (Part II).
Box 18, Folder 1-3
COLLECTED POEMS OF CARL RAKOSI
1983
General note
Photocopy of the manuscript, edited by Rakosi, indicating selections. Includes a letter to John Martin of Black Sparrow Press.
Acquired by the Library in 2011.
Box 4, Folder 22
Contributions to the liturgy for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
1970 - 1980
General note
Printed programs and notes.
Box 5, Folder 1
DROLES DE JOURNAL
1982 - 1989
General note
French translation by Jean-Paul Auxemery.
Box 5, Folder 2
Miscellaneous poems (Part I)
Box 5, Folder 3
Miscellaneous poems (Part II)
Box 5, Folder 4
Miscellaneous poems (Part III)
Box 5, Folder 5
Miscellaneous poems (Part IV)
Box 5, Folder 6
POEMS, 1923-1941
General note
Photocopy of typescript for the Sun and Moon Press publication edited by Andrew Crozier.
Social Work and Psychotherapy
Box 5, Folder 8
Articles about social work and psychology by Callman Rawley
1937 - 1992
Box 5, Folder 9
Seven Case Histories
1942 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 5, Folder 10
Notes on clients (Part I)
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 5, Folder 11
Notes on clients (Part II)
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
WRITINGS OF OTHERS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 4) WRITINGS OF OTHERS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Manuscripts and B) Critical Essays on Rakosi.
A) Manuscripts: Manuscripts of collected poetry sent to Rakosi, arranged alphabetically by author.
B) Critical Essays on Rakosi: Three critical essays on Rakosi's literary work.
Box 6, Folder 1
Cohn, Jim. "Prairie Falcon: Selected Poems, 1976-1987"
1987
General note
Bound mimeograph.
Box 6, Folder 2
Cole, Peter. "Ambit"
1969
Box 6, Folder 3
Fielding, Dawson. "The Black Mountain Book"
Box 6, Folder 4
Evans, George. "A walk in the garden of heaven"
Box 6, Folder 5
Glass, Jesse
General note
Miscellaneous poems.
Box 6, Folder 6
Kleinzahler, August. "Earthquake Weather"
General note
Photocopy of annotated proof.
Box 6, Folder 7
Morrow, Bradford. "Posthumes"
Critical Essays on Rakosi
Box 6, Folder 9
Corman, Cid
1989 - 1990
General note
"Caught in the Act: The Comedian as Social Worker, the work of Carl Rakosi"
Box 6, Folder 10
Fixel, Lawrence
General note
"The mindscape of Carl Rakosi: Towards a reading of THE COLLECTED POEMS"
Box 6, Folder 11
Riemer, Ruby
General note
"Carl Rakosi and the Metaphoric Mode"
Accessions Processed in 2003
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 5) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Interviews and Writings about Rakosi and B) Miscellaneous
Materials.
A) Interviews and Writings about Rakosi: Drafts and printed copies of interviews and writings about Rakosi and his associations
with the Objectivists and with Jewish writers. Arranged alphabetically by the author's (or interviewer's) last name.
B) Miscellaneous Materials: Materials related to Rakosi's education and business, including transcripts, business cards, and
CVs. Includes two large folders of materials related to his wife, Leah Rakosi. Arranged alphabetically.
Interviews and Writings about Rakosi
Box 7, Folder 1
Bromige, David - "On the Page: Discussing the Objectivists"
1989
General note
December. Published in POETRY FLASH.
Box 7, Folder 2
Devaney, Tom - "Carl Rakosi Interview with Oliver Brossard"
2001
Box 7, Folder 3
Dickison, Steve - Interview with Carl Rakosi
1998 - 2001
General note
Includes correspondence with the Poetry Center.
Box 7, Folder 4
Evans, George and August Kleinzahler - "Interview with Carl Rakosi"
1986
General note
July 6. San Francisco. Published in CONJUNCTIONS. Includes notes and drafts.
Box 7, Folder 5
From Sixth Session on Writing - Interview with Carl Rakosi
Box 7, Folder 6
Hatlen, Burton - Interview with Carl Rakosi
1985
Box 7, Folder 7
Rosenblum, Martin - "Unexpected Arrangement"
1987
Box 7, Folder 8
Miscellaneous newspaper articles and reviews of Rakosi
1968 - 1997
Box 7, Folder 9
Biographical sketch by unknown author
General note
Incomplete copy with editorial marks.
Box 7, Folder 11
Curricula vitae
1936 - 1976
General note
Includes CVs and resumes of Rakosi's professional life as a social worker and as a writer.
Box 7, Folder 12
DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY 193: AMERICAN POETS SINCE WWII, Sixth Series, ed. Joseph Conte
1997 - 1998
General note
Includes master proofs with correspondence with Elizabeth Losh.
Box 7, Folder 14
Family photographs on videocassette
Restrictions
Restrictions Apply
Box 7, Folder 15
Rakosi, Leah (Carl's wife)
1939 - 1989
General note
Part 1. Includes Carl Rakosi's notes, diaristic musings and notes and drafts of poems and letters. Also includes Leah's reminiscences.
Box 7, Folder 16
Rakosi, Leah (Carl's wife)
1939 - 1989
General note
Part 2. Includes newspaper clippings, Carl's notes and musings on Leah, notes and drafts of poems and letters.
Box 7, Folder 17
Rakosi, Leah (Carl's wife)
1939 - 1989
General note
Includes cards to and from Leah (birthday, anniversary, etc.), letters of condolence written to Carl when Leah died in 1989
and responses from Carl.
Box 7, Folder 18
Tribute to Carl Rakosi - Housing Works Used Book Cafe
2001
Restrictions
Audiocassette is restricted.
General note
April 11. New York. Includes flyers, photos, lists of readers, and audiocassette tape.
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 6) CORRESPONDENCE: Correspondence with various editors, organizations and younger authors on the literary scene, in
addition to former colleagues and family members. Includes copies of correspondence with Allen Ginsberg, George Oppen and
Louis Zukofsky. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 8, Folder 4
AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW (Arthur Vogelsang, editor)
1993 - 2000
General note
Includes page proofs of Rakosi's "Ballad of the Diminished I" and "Field Notes."
Box 8, Folder 7
Bacigulpo, Massimo
1993 - 1998
General note
Includes "No Jerusalem but This - Reznikoff to Menashe," "Sant' Ambrogio in the Half-Light: Growing Up Near Olga Rudge and
Ezra Pound" and "Theologian" (by Rakosi, published in VERSI PER UNSECOLO).
Box 8, Folder 8
Backwoods Broadsides (Sylvester Pollet)
1995 - 1996
Box 8, Folder 9
Bacon, Sidney
1997 - 2000
Box 8, Folder 12
Bednarik, Joseph S. (editor, THE SUMAC READER)
Box 8, Folder 13
Bernstein, Maurice
1996 - 1998
General note
Includes "Growing Old! Growing Old! I am Growing Old."
Box 8, Folder 14
BLOODAXE BOOKS (Andrew MacAllister, editor)
1996
Box 8, Folder 15
BOXKITE (James Taylor, editor)
1997
Box 8, Folder 18
Caddell, Rick
1989 - 1997
Box 8, Folder 19
CAFE REVIEW (Steve Luttrell, editor)
1995 - 1996
Box 8, Folder 20
Cantor, Margery
1994 - 1996
Box 8, Folder 21
CHICAGO REVIEW (Devin Johnston, poetry editor)
1996
Box 8, Folder 23
Cloud House Poetry Archives (Steven S. Kushner, director)
1995 - 2001
Box 8, Folder 27
CONJUNCTIONS (Bradford Morrow, editor)
1982 - 1995
Box 8, Folder 31
Crow, Jennifer (granddaughter), Dallas (her husband) and Rawley (their son)
1995 - 2002
Box 8, Folder 32
Cozier, Andrew
1965
General note
Includes "The Heifer (after Carl Rakosi)."
Box 8, Folder 35
Duncan, Robert
1994
General note
Excerpt from a letter.
Box 8, Folder 36
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau
1982 - 1997
General note
Includes "Prospectus: THE OBJECTIVIST NEXUS (ed. DuPlessis and Quartermain).
Box 8, Folder 37
Ephron, Harmon S. ("Sol" or Sollie") and Pat
1930 - 1935
Box 8, Folder 38
Ephron, Harmon S. ("Sol" or Sollie") and Pat
1966 - 1978
General note
Includes some copies of Rakosi's letters to Ephron.
Box 8, Folder 39
Ephron, Harmon S. ("Sol" or Sollie") and Pat
1979 - 1992
General note
Includes some copies of Rakosi's letters to Ephron.
Box 8, Folder 40
Ephron, Harmon S. ("Sol" or Sollie") and Pat
General note
Includes drafts of Rakosi's letters, notes on Ephron's letters and notes for Rakosi's poems based on correspondence with Ephron.
Box 9, Folder 2
Evans, George
1980 - 2000
Box 9, Folder 3
EX-EXEC (William McCurdy, editor)
1996
Box 9, Folder 5
Felsteiner, John
1998 - 2002
Box 9, Folder 6
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
1999
Box 9, Folder 9
George, Kathi
1995 - 1999
Box 9, Folder 10
Gilonis, Harry
1995 - 1999
General note
Includes "Echoes Series" (by Gilonis and Ian Hamilton Finlay), "From the Old Welsh" and "A Picture."
Box 9, Folder 11
Ginsburg, Allen
1985 - 1999
General note
Includes "A Ballad of Skeletons."
Box 9, Folder 13
H. W. Wilson Company (Vineta Colby, editor of WORLD AUTHORS: 1980 - 1985)
1987
Box 9, Folder 14
Haas, Brad
1999
General note
Includes "Trifocal" and other miscellaneous poems.
Box 9, Folder 15
Hanging Loose Press (Robert Hershon, editor)
2000
Box 9, Folder 16
Heller, Michael
1989 - 2001
Box 9, Folder 17
Heyman, Peggy and Bill
1999
General note
Includes correspondence from Peggy's father, Bernie.
Box 9, Folder 18
Hofer, Jen
1997 - 1999
General note
Includes AS FAR AS (1999).
Box 9, Folder 19
Hollo, Anselm and Jane
1996 - 2000
Box 9, Folder 20
Jacob, Bob
2002
General note
Includes miscellaneous poems.
Box 9, Folder 21
Jeffs, Naomi (daughter of Sidney Bacon)
2002
Box 9, Folder 23
Johnson, Nicholas (editor, Etruscan Books)
1998 - 2001
General note
Includes other correspondence re. Rakosi's poetry reading tour in England in 1997.
Box 9, Folder 25
Kane, Marilyn (companion)
1989 - 1999
General note
Includes journal kept while Rakosi was in Europe.
Box 9, Folder 26
Katz, Eliot
1999
General note
Includes Rakosi's "The Daily News" and "Down to Earth Suite."
Box 9, Folder 30
LaRose, Julie (Rawley, granddaughter, daughter of Dan and Barbara Nordby)
2001
Box 9, Folder 31
Lawrence, Anne
1975 - 1976
Box 9, Folder 36
Lewis, Joel
General note
Includes "WPA Poems."
Box 9, Folder 37
Lieberman, Dr. E. James
1995 - 1998
Box 9, Folder 39
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (Jeremy Harding, poetry editor)
1996 - 1998
Box 9, Folder 40
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1997 - 1998
Box 9, Folder 43
Messerli, Douglas
2000
General note
Includes "The Acts, for Carl Rakosi."
Box 9, Folder 44
Mills, Billy and Catherine Walsh
1997 - 1999
Box 9, Folder 45
Minkoff, George Robert (George Robert Minkoff, Inc., Rare Books)
1986 - 1989
Box 9, Folder 47
MOSAIC (Suzan Berns, producer)
1996 - 1997
Box 10, Folder 5
National Endowment for the Arts
1976 - 1977
Box 10, Folder 6
National Poetry Foundation
1985 - 1999
General note
Includes correspondence written by Sylvester Pollet, Burton Hatlen and others. See also PAIDEUMA.
Box 10, Folder 8
Nordby, Dan and Barbara (daughter)
1995 - 1997
General note
See also Rawley, Barbara.
Box 10, Folder 9
O' Brien, Geoffrey (executive editor, The Library of America)
1995 - 2001
Box 10, Folder 10
Oppen, George
1975
General note
Photocopies of originals.
Box 10, Folder 12
PAIDEUMA (Carroll F. Terrell, editor)
1985 - 1986
Box 10, Folder 14
Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
1987
Box 10, Folder 16
POETRY INTERNATIONAL (Fred Moramarco, editor)
1996
Box 10, Folder 17
POETRY NEW YORK (Burt Kimmelman, editor)
1996 - 1997
Box 10, Folder 18
POETS ON THE LINE (Linda Lerner, editor)
1995 - 1998
Box 10, Folder 19
Popper, Samuel and Evelyn
1972 - 2002
Box 10, Folder 20
Potts, Charles (Tsunami, Inc.)
1997 - 2000
Box 10, Folder 21
Powell, James (poetry editor, OCCIDENT)
1979 - 1987
Box 10, Folder 22
Prynne, Jeremy
1988 - 1997
Box 10, Folder 24
Rawley, Barbara (daughter)
1974 - 1998
General note
See also Norby, Dan and Barbara.
Box 10, Folder 25
Rawley, George (son) and Leanna
1972
Box 10, Folder 26
Rawley, Joanna (granddaughter, daughter of Barbara Rawley)
1998 - 1999
Box 10, Folder 27
RIBOT (Paul Vangelisti, editor)
1996 - 1998
Box 10, Folder 29
Rosenblum, Martin
1986 - 1995
Box 10, Folder 30
Rosenthal, Gary
1987 - 1997
Box 10, Folder 31
Roth Publishing, Inc. (Tina Posner, associate editor)
1987 - 1996
General note
Re. permission to reprint two of Rakosi's poems in ANNUAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN POETRY (1986).
Box 10, Folder 32
Rothenberg, Jerome
1995 - 1996
Box 10, Folder 33
Royet-Journoud, Claude
1986
Box 10, Folder 34
Rudolph, Anthony (The Menard Press)
1995 - 1999
Box 10, Folder 37
Salerno, Mark (editor, ARSHILE)
1993 - 1998
Box 10, Folder 38
SAMIZDAT (Robert Archambeau)
2002
Box 10, Folder 39
Schwerner, Armand
1993 - 1999
Box 10, Folder 41
Scully, Maurice
1997 - 2000
Box 10, Folder 42
Shatsky, Joel (editor, CONTEMPORARY JEWISH-AMERICAN DRAMATISTS AND POETS: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCEBOOK)
1997
Box 10, Folder 43
Shere, Charles
1995 - 2000
Restrictions
Audiocassette is restricted.
General note
Includes music for "The Old Poet's Tale" and audiocassette tape of Charles Shere's music.
Box 10, Folder 45
Sun and Moon Press (Douglas Messerli, publisher)
1990 - 1997
Box 10, Folder 47
TALISMAN (Ed Foster, editor)
1982 - 1997
Box 10, Folder 48
Thompson, Phyllis Hoge
2002
Box 10, Folder 49
Tobias, Rebecca (Lawrence)
1997
Box 10, Folder 50
Tranter, John
1987 - 1997
Box 10, Folder 51
Turnbull, Gael
1993 - 2000
Box 11, Folder 2
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University Libraries (Yvonne Schofer, bibliographer)
1986 - 1989
Box 11, Folder 5
Watsky, Paul
2001
General note
Includes "In Montana," MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS and "What's My Line? Revisited."
Box 11, Folder 10
Woodland Pattern Book Center
1996 - 1998
Box 11, Folder 11
Young, Karl (Light and Dust Books)
1994 - 1997
Box 11, Folder 12
Zukofsky, Louis
1930 - 1942
General note
Includes photocopied excerpts of original correspondence and Rakosi's notes on correspondence. Originals housed at University
of Texas, Humanities Research Center.
Box 11, Folder 13
Unidentified correspondents
WRITINGS BY RAKOSI
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 7) WRITINGS BY RAKOSI. Arranged in three subseries: A) Prose, B) Poetry and C) Readings and Lectures.
A) Prose: Blurbs and introductions for books by Rakosi and others; short essays and published letters to editors. Includes
correspondence between Margery Latimer (1899-1932, a.k.a. Margery Latimer Toomer, wife of Jean Toomer) and Blanche Matthias,
and other research materials used for Rakosi's
Collected Prose.
B) Poetry: Materials related to published works, as well as drafts and manuscripts of poems.
C) Readings and Lectures: Rakosi's notes and lists of poems for readings and lectures given from approximately 1973-1999 with
flyers and announcements for these events. Arranged chronologically, with undated materials at the end.
Box 11, Folder 14
Blurbs and forewords for others' books
General note
Includes blurbs for Mark Salerno's HATE, Daniel Haberman's book of poems, Beau Beausoleil's AGAINST THE HEAVENS, and foreword
to Stanley Kiessel's THE PEARL IS A HARDENED SINNER.
Box 11, Folder 15
COLLECTED PROSE - Research materials
1921 - 1977
General note
Includes Margery Latimer's (1899 - 1932, a.k.a. Margery Latimer Toomer) letters to Blanche Matthias. Also includes Matthias'
description of friendship, Rakosi's notes on Latimer-Matthias correspondence. Materials used in COLLECTED PROSE, pp. 88 -
104.
Box 11, Folder 16
Encounter with Jonathan Griffin
Box 11, Folder 17
Plan of Work - Guggenheim Fellowship
Box 11, Folder 18
Rakosi to Weinberger
1995
General note
Letter to Eliot Weinberger, published in EXQUISITE CORPSE.
Box 11, Folder 20
Word About the Objectivists
1994
Box 11, Folder 21
Americana
General note
Includes drafts and notes.
Box 11, Folder 22
Death of a Wife
General note
Includes drafts and notes.
Box 11, Folder 23
EARTH SUITE (1997)
General note
Includes table of contents, afterwords and press releases.
Box 11, Folder 24
Everyday Book - Working drafts, manuscripts and notes
General note
Part 1. Published (in part) as "Nine Poems from 'The Everyday Book'" ("The Poet," "The Moment," "The Execution," "Fragment,"
"The History of Man," "Tune," "How to be with A Rock," "Aie!" "Riddle") in NEW DIRECTIONS 25, 1972: 138 - 143. Also includes
postcards and letters from "Mom," "Beau," Alan Leveton, Kurt Lipschutz, and others. Also includes SPARROW 53 ("My Experiences
in Parnassus" by Rakosi) with notes.
Box 11, Folder 25
Everyday Book - Working drafts, manuscripts and notes
Box 11, Folder 26
HISTORY (1981)
General note
Typescript of "Foreword."
Box 11, Folder 27
Instructions to the Intellect
General note
Includes drafts and notes.
Box 11, Folder 28
OLD POET'S TALE (1999) - Page proofs
1998
General note
Includes correspondence, notes and corrections. Also includes "George Oppen: The Last Day" (prose predecessor to THE OLD POET'S
TALE).
Box 11, Folder 29
Working papers - Drafts and typescripts of poems
General note
Part 1. Includes "Poem Beginning Jew," "A Knight Y'clept Psychology," "On the Street," "The Slave," "The Burdens of Ambiguity,"
"Shory Psalm," "The Report," "Chips Off the Old Block," "The Situation," "Mysteries," "1996," and "The New Prometheus."
Box 11, Folder 30
Working papers - Drafts and typescripts of poems
Box 11, Folder 31
Working papers - Drafts and typescripts of poems
Box 12, Folder 1
Programs for readings
1973 - 1987
General note
Includes lists of poems to read and some announcements.
Box 12, Folder 2
Programs for readings
1990 - 1999
General note
Includes lists of poems to read and some announcements.
RECORDINGS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 8) RECORDINGS: Sound and video recordings of Rakosi's readings and interviews from 1995-1999. Media is restricted.
Researchers may request user copies be produced. Arranged in two subseries: A) By Carl Rakosi and B) Miscellaneous.
A) By Carl Rakosi: Sound and video recordings (on VHS, audiocassette and compact disc) of Rakosi's poetry readings, interviews,
and autobiographical sessions.
B) Miscellaneous: Audiocassette recording of poetry by various authors, read by unidentified speakers, for Carl Rakosi.
Box 12, Folder 3
Autobiographical Sessions I and II
1995
General note
January 18. Cloud House Poetry Archives: Living History Project. 2 audiocassette tapes.
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 12, Folder 4
Interviewed by Rabbi Alan Lew, Beth Shalom and MOSAIC #20
1996
General note
July 21. VHS videocassette tape.
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 12, Folder 5
In the Plain Life, San Francisco
1997
General note
April 15. Produced by Alan Leveton, M.D. for his series, "Leveton's Kabinet Presents." 2 VHS videocassette tapes.
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 13, Folder 1
Reading at Beth Shalom
1996
General note
March 26. Produced by Cloud House Poetry Archives. Audio compact disc.
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 13, Folder 2
Reading at Library of Congress, Mumford Room
1996
General note
April 11. VHS videocassette tape.
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 13, Folder 3
Reading at Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
1999
General note
September 9. Introduction by Steve Dickison. VHS videocassette tape and audio compact disc.
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 13, Folder 4
Reading Six Town Poetry Festival
1996
General note
June 26. Produced by Cloud House Poetry Archives. VHS videocassette tape and audiocassette tape.
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
Box 13, Folder 5
Poetpourri for Carl Rakosi
General note
Includes Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Edith Sitwell, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Robert Duncan, and William Carlos
Williams. Audiocassette tape.
Conditions Governing Access note
Restrictions Apply
ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 9) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES: Originals of brittle or high acid content documents that have been photocopied.
Box 14, Folder 1
Originals of preservation photocopies
Accession Processed in 2005
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 10) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS: Materials related to Rakosi's 100th birthday celebration (including music composed for
a selection of his poetry), a lifetime achievement award, and business cards and CVs.
Box 15, Folder 1
100th Birthday - Music by others for Rakosi's Poems
2003
General note
Includes correspondence with musicians and copies of poems.
Box 15, Folder 2
AMULET
1968
General note
Excerpts from reviews.
Box 15, Folder 3
Berrigan, Anselm. "Carl Rakosi 100th Birthday Celebration"
2004
General note
From POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER.
Box 15, Folder 4
Business Card/ CV (Callman Rawley)/ Writing Brochure (Rakosi)
Box 15, Folder 5
Carl Rakosi: A Tribute - Housing Works Used Book Cafe
2001
General note
April 11. Flyer from event in New York.
Box 15, Folder 6
Obituaries
General note
POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER and various newspapers (copies).
Box 15, Folder 7
Small Press Traffic Lifetime Achievement Award, San Francisco
2003
General note
Includes correspondence and press clippings.
Box 15, Folder 8
Tallerton, David. [Tribute to Leah Rakosi]
Box 15, Folder 9
Miscellaneous newspaper clippings mentioning Rakosi
1996 - 1999
General note
Includes undated mention of Rakosi on ABC program.
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 11) CORRESPONDENCE: Correspondence with various editors, organizations and younger authors, as well as correspondence
with George Oppen and Louis Zukofsky. Includes significant correspondence with both fellow writers and family members, and
a large folder of miscellaneous letters from admirers of Rakosi's work, dating from 1970-2003. Arranged alphabetically by
correspondent.
Box 15, Folder 10
A-Z - Miscellaneous
1970 - 2003
General note
Includes some responses by Rakosi.
Box 15, Folder 12
AND WE THE CREATURES (C.J. Sage, editor)
2003
Box 15, Folder 14
Backwoods Broadsides (Sylvester Pollet)
1996 - 2003
Box 15, Folder 17
Bullock, Ken
2003
General note
Includes enclosure.
Box 15, Folder 18
Clitheroe, Frederic
1983
General note
Copy of originals.
Box 15, Folder 21
Creeley, Robert
1987 - 2004
General note
Includes poem for Rakosi by Creeley.
Box 15, Folder 22
Crow, Jennifer (granddaughter), Rawley (great-grandson)
2004
Box 15, Folder 23
Crozier, Andrew
1983 - 2004
Box 15, Folder 25
Devaney, Tom
2002 - 2004
General note
Includes transcript of Delaney interviewing Rakosi in 2001.
Box 15, Folder 27
Downey, Fred
2003 - 2004
General note
Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center.
Box 15, Folder 29
Evans, George
2003
General note
Includes event flyer.
Box 15, Folder 31
Felstiner, John
2002 - 2003
General note
Enclosures of Felstiner's translation of Neruda and note from Denise Levertov.
Box 15, Folder 34
Fixel, Justine
2003
General note
Lawrence Fixel family.
Box 15, Folder 35
Fleming, Gerald
2003
General note
Fleming poem enclosed with program for "Writers Remembered."
Box 15, Folder 37
Gallagher, Kevin
2002 - 2003
General note
Relates to poems published in journal ARC.
Box 15, Folder 38
Gambarotte, Martin
2002 - 2003
General note
Rakosi's Spanish translator.
Box 15, Folder 39
George, Charley and Kathi
1976 - 1999
Box 15, Folder 41
Haas, Bradford
2004
General note
Editor for webzine flashpointmag.com.
Box 15, Folder 43
Heller, Michael
1995 - 2004
General note
Copy of journal article on Rakosi enclosed.
Box 15, Folder 47
Hollo, Anselm and Jane
2003
Box 15, Folder 48
Johnson, Nicholas
2001 - 2004
General note
Enclosures relating to British publication of poems.
Box 15, Folder 52
Kiesel, Stanley
1975 - 1977
Box 15, Folder 54
King, Mimi and Jeff (granddaughter and grandson-in-law)
2003
Box 15, Folder 57
Library of America (Geoffrey O'Brien)
2002
Box 15, Folder 58
Lieberman, James
1996 - 2004
Box 15, Folder 59
Lipschutz, Kurt
2001 - 2003
Box 15, Folder 60
Metre (Philip Coleman, University of Dublin)
2004
Box 16, Folder 2
Mills, Catherine and Billy
1997
Box 16, Folder 4
Morrison, Yedda
1998 - 1999
Box 16, Folder 5
Naropa University (Steven Taylor)
2003
Box 16, Folder 6
NEW YORKER
2004
General note
Includes poetry submissions "A Valentine" and "Royally Stewed."
Box 16, Folder 7
Oppen, George
1974
General note
Photocopy of original with Rakosi's marginal notes.
Box 16, Folder 8
Palmer, Robert
1998 - 1999
General note
Printer for Rakosi's THE OLD POET'S TALE.
Box 16, Folder 9
Poets House (Suzanne Wise, program coordinator)
2002
Box 16, Folder 11
Prynne, Jeremy H.
1994 - 2004
Box 16, Folder 12
Rawley, Barbara (daughter) and Dan Nordby (son-in-law)
2003
Box 16, Folder 15
Rudolph, Anthony
2002 - 2004
General note
Enclosures - Articles on Rakosi at 100.
Box 16, Folder 16
SF Poet museum (curator, Steven Kushner)
1999 - 2003
General note
Cloud House Poetry Archives.
Box 16, Folder 18
Salerno, Mark
2002 - 2003
Box 16, Folder 20
Tiger, Madeline
2002
General note
Includes "Listening to the Venerable Poet."
Box 16, Folder 21
Turnbull, Gael
2001 - 2003
Box 16, Folder 22
U.S. LATINO REVIEW (Andres Castro, editor)
2001 - 2002
Box 16, Folder 23
VERSEtility Books (Robert Jacob)
2001
Box 16, Folder 28
Zukofsky, Louis - Excerpts from letters
1930 - 1933
General note
Rakosi's notes on his correspondence with Zukofsky and copies of article on Zukofsky.
WRITINGS BY RAKOSI
Scope and Contents of Series
Series 12) WRITINGS BY RAKOSI. Arranged in three subseries: A) Prose, B) Poetry and C) Miscellaneous.
A) Prose: Draft of a letter to the editor of
Poetry Flash on the Conference on the American Objectivists held at Royaumont, France, in September 1989; and drafts of tributes and articles
Rakosi wrote about George Oppen.
B) Poetry: Unfinished working drafts of several poems, including a draft of his earlier poem "Americana."
C) Miscellaneous: Working papers, drafts and manuscripts of poems and source materials, including "Journal" and "Journal 2;"
undated fragments and drafts relating to Rakosi's earlier writings.
Box 16, Folder 29
George Oppen
1975 - 1985
General note
Review of collected poems (notes from), copy of obituary published in J.A.C.O.B.'s Letter, 1985.
Box 16, Folder 30
To the Editor
1990
General note
Article on Conference on American Objectivists in POETRY FLASH, draft; Conference held in Royaumont, France, Sept. 1989; published
in POETRY FLASH, no. 204, March 1990.
Box 16, Folder 31
The Aged
General note
Source materials; journal entries for poem.
Box 16, Folder 32
The Aged on Dying (for a play)
Box 16, Folder 33
The Agnostic's Prayer - Draft
Box 16, Folder 34
Annals of the Presidency
General note
Source material for the poem.
Box 16, Folder 35
For Testament II - Draft
General note
Notes on Leon Sarabian Herald and Kenneth Fearing, 1935.
Box 16, Folder 37
Homage to Night and Day (Fabre) - Draft
Box 16, Folder 38
How I Got to the Center of the Universe - Draft
Box 16, Folder 39
Hungarian Fantasy - Draft
Box 16, Folder 42
Letters to the Editor, Two Cents, etc.
General note
Drafts of poems and source materials.
Box 16, Folder 43
Material for Christian Poem, Cross - Draft
Box 16, Folder 46
Ode to Rockbottom - Draft
Box 16, Folder 49
Poem to Work on - Draft
General note
Includes draft of "Americana."
Box 16, Folder 50
The Scot in the Heather - Draft
Box 16, Folder 51
Welfare Bums - Draft
1942
General note
Draft of possible play.
Box 16, Folder 52
American Folk Songs and Proverbs
Box 17, Folder 6
Prose
General note
Contains notes on the Objectivists.
Box 17, Folder 7
Senator Joseph McCarthy
General note
Source material for poem or prose.