Carl RAKOSI
The Old Poet's Tale
£14.95 pbk
276 pp 225x155 mm
publ Jul 1999.
Cased, numbered, signed £35;
with holographic material £75
Gathering work spanning 1924-98, an ambitious project featuring a key figure in the group of Jewish & Communist poets known as 'The Objectivists'. This book reconfigures previously published works, 56 new poems & a new essay.
The Old Poet's Tale represents the circular narrative of a subject possessing neither beginning nor closure; an American Canterbury Tales, to be told & retold.