HE SHALL BE NAMELESS Fair Copy 2

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"HE SHALL BE NAMELESS," 11 May 1979 copy, p. 2 His stubborn name became this afternoon an unseen bee whose business trips I heard; 6 million voyages it made within the eyewink span I gave it up for lost-- then honey of remembrance and its cost I calculated richer legacy than fortressed hand-me-downs of creed, than gemdroppings of palace Bandits scooped up as monuments to unsuspecting names, reared stone-lipped, flag-eared, domed in steel. Even a building, even his at Auschwitz, has a name they must have kissed his cheeks, rubbed brief advice into his hair, and called him Little So-and-So in parting)... But, I speculate, the business of a man is voyaging far from childhood sweets, flowering new transactions shore by shore, becoming captain, crew, and weathered sail . . . He shall be nameless, this traveler, this dinner guest, staying where he was, keeping his face, a fragrance even after its smoke-ring frame, withdrawing smaller and smaller, disappears.

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Copy poem written by Emanuel in 1979, typed with written annotations, about a nameless man who experienced the Holocaust in Auschwitz (Page 2).

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  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    609 kB
  • container title
    James A. Emanuel Papers
  • creator
    James A. Emanuel
  • issue
    BOX 4 FOLDER 22 Chisel in the Dark, draft, n.d.
  • rights
    James A. Emanuel Estate
  • rights holder
    James A. Emanuel Estate
  • version
    5/11/1979