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Book SynopsisFrom "Art History":
Someone comes along
gives that tedious old thing
a new twist or
breaks its neck
the old questions
don't change:
what do you want me to say?
what do you want me to do?
Anselm Hollo (1934–2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo eventually settled in the United States in 1966, where he taught at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
Trade ReviewIn this posthumous trove of brief, zestful poems, Hollo. . . relates the incredible ONSLAUGHT of being,’ seemingly dashing off each of these frenetic, fragmented vignettes in a fit of wild gusto.” Publisher's Weekly Hollo’s poetry feels remarkably fresh and spontaneous. There is absolutely no artifice, no structural formality, no evident prosody.” Heavy Feather Review
“In this posthumous trove of brief, zestful poems, Hollo. . . relates the `incredible ONSLAUGHT of being,’ seemingly dashing off each of these frenetic, fragmented vignettes in a fit of wild gusto.” —Publisher's Weekly “Hollo’s poetry feels remarkably fresh and spontaneous. There is absolutely no artifice, no structural formality, no evident prosody.” —Heavy Feather Review
Table of ContentsPart 1: The Tortoise of History Wildly Tangled Quake Don't Tell Me Why Not She Said Art History Home Some Ways City of Time Dasein Somewhere Who Said He Could Do This Memory There Is Room in the Room That I Room in Who Would Have Through – Santa Ganesh 100-Year-Old Poet Nothing Rides with Bob Creeley Bugs Killed Our Tree The Less Known Rainy Night New Year's Poem Crocus More So Than Before Broken Flowers African Gray Parrot with Brain the Size of Walnut Understands a Numeral Concept Akin to Zero Listen to the Long Hiss of Time The Way They Pop Up Now Mirlitonnade Valentine "Growing Old Together" The Bugs Sang Grand You Were Talking (1967) The Pika 75 Formal Prosody The Stars There's Times As A Place Is a While After They've Gone Still Reading Joanne Kyger Hunchback Mountain Late Night, Old Surprises Noir Running Sitting in Peaceful Lamplight At Civitella Ranieri The Bard of the Pyrenees See What You Got, Tomorrow (2002) Looking at the Old Hand Two Strange Little Vessels James Butler A.K.A. Wild Bill Hickok's Final Stream of Consciousness Blue Moon Another One Gone Too Soon 2010 A Spring of Departures The Tortoise of History Part 2: Hipponax, His Poems I Careless Love II What a Mob III Screech Screech Here Come The Ghosts (Or, "People Who Died") IV Still Waiting for My Winter Coat
