Anselm Hollo

Finite Continued

Jaan Kross

Timo von Bock, a Baltic nobleman, is imprisoned for nine years because of a critical letter he sent to Czar Alexander I

A Novel

The Czar's Madman

St Texts & Finnpoems

Евгений Александрович Евтушенко

Andreĭ Voznesenskiĭ

Semen Kirsanov

English Versions

Red Cats

From "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.

The Tortoise of History

This collection of prose writings by an internationally known poet includes an autobiographical essay describing Hollo's remarkable odyssey from the time he left his native Finland for the United States as a high school student until he settled in Colorado in the late 1980s. Other pieces in the collection, ranging from brief pieces ("caws") to more extended "causeries" (informal essays), include "Some Aereated Prose for a Panel on 'experimental writing, '" "Gregorio the Herald" (a tribute to Gregory Corso), discussions of other poets, among them Tom Raworth and Francis Ponge, "What Was It Like: A Remembrance of Allen Ginsberg's Howl," and a sampling of a lifetime's observations on poetry and poets. What emerges is a lively, unabashedly opinionated, always personal poetics forged in association and friendship with numerous "New American" poets: the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, the New York School, the Language poets, and the perennially unclassifiable and enigmatic.

Caws & Causeries Around Poetry and Poets

Death! Truth! Meaning of Life/ Love! Romanticism! Loss! Reality! Consciousness!--all here in Hollo's modern sonnets.

Guests of Space

"Hollo's poetry continually confounds as well as exceeds the reader's expectations."--Small Press

New & Selected Poems

Pick Up the House

Wry and witty poems from an avant-garde great, collected in one volume for the first time. The Collected Poems of Anselm Hollo gathers over five decades of the multihyphenate poet's work into one elegant volume. All of Hollo's trademark humor, wisdom, and charm is on display here for students and fans of contemporary poetry. Warm and lyrical, insightful and cosmopolitan, this comprehensive collection serves as a reminder that poetry isn't just an aspiration or avocation, but a way of life.

The Collected Poems of Anselm Hollo

Faces & Forms

Maya: Works, 1959-1969

Wry, sly, hip--the selected poems of the past thirty-five years of Anselm Hollo.

Selected Poems, 1965-2000

Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence

Some Flame Poetry. (Poetry by Anselm Hollo [and Others]

Anselm Hollo Fonds

Faces and forms, by anselm hollo

Braided River consists of a major selection from forty years of Anselm Hollo's published work, as well as a selection from his most recent, uncollected work.It describes a "braided" lifetime's endeavours to generate text that reflects a twentieth century existence in Europe, including England, and the United States of America.A native of Finland, Hollo has been anthologized and discussed as a "British" poet in the Sixties and early Seventies, later on, as an "American" one.A lifelong associate of the Beat, Black Mountain, New York (One and Two), and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E schools of U.S. American Poetry, Hollo hopes to convey to younger writers the amazing variety and strength of the writing (both poetry and prose) that has emerged from those quarters in the past fifty-odd years, and that has been strongly connected to the most active work created in the United Kingdom. This body of work represents the United States' true contribution to modern and postmodern world literature, and it exists, to this day, in glorious independence from what poet/essayist Charles Bernstein has called 'official verse culture.' Hollo's aim is to acquaint younger writers with this vigorous, multifarious, rhizomic tradition of U.S. American writing. He also hopes to demonstrate the multi- and cross-cultural connections that have influenced it, something he practises in his Boulder classes, examining twentieth century European poetry and French poetry in particular, and in his translation workshops.

New and Selected Poems 1965-2005

Braided River

Consists of photocopy typescripts of Heavy Jars, a collection of poems inscribed to Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley; and Push of Joy, with cover sheet signed by Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley. Also included is a signed typescript draft translation from the german by Anselm and Josephine Clare Hollo of "Birthday" by Peter Altenberg, which is also inscribed to Ted Berrigan.

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