Anselm Hollo, Author . Coffee House $15 (83p) ISBN 978-1-56689-192-9
Cult poet and translator Hollo (Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence
, 2001) makes this 32nd collection of his own verse an entertaining, chatty, omnivorous affair. Most of the volume consists of unrhymed 14-line sonnetlike poems...
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Anselm Hollo, Author Coffee House Press $8.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-918273-76-5
In these alternately humorous and hard-hitting poems about life, death, politics and poetry, Hollo ( Pick Up the House ) addresses such issues as nuclear war, ``massive man-made pollution'' and the fate of the universe. With his signature penchant...
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Anselm Hollo, Author Coffee House Press $11.95 (142p) ISBN 978-1-56689-039-7
Ironic in-jokey, post-beat hipster and quietly beautiful lyricist, avant-gardist Hollo (Outlying Districts) graciously draws readers to his work in these poems through both the copious notes supplied with many of them and the gently funny, probing...
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Anselm Hollo, Author La Alameda Press $14 (80p) ISBN 978-1-888809-22-0
Gathering work from 24 mostly small-press collections, Notes is the Finnish-American Hollo's first selected volume in nearly 25 years. Hollo speaks, writes and translates in or from at least four different languages, and has moved gradually over the
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Anselm Hollo. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (98p) ISBN 978-1-56689-444-9
In this posthumous trove of brief, zestful poems, Hollo (1934–2013), a prolific poet and multilingual translator, relates the “incredible ONSLAUGHT of being,” seemingly dashing off each of these frenetic, fragmented vignettes in a fit of wild gusto.
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Anselm Hollo, Author, Robert Creeley, Introduction by Coffee House Press $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56689-115-8
Gathering work from 24 mostly small-press collections, Notes is the Finnish-American Hollo's first selected volume in nearly 25 years. Hollo speaks, writes and translates in or from at least four different languages, and has moved gradually over the
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Anselm Hollo, edited by John Bloomberg-Rissman and Yasmina Ghiasi. Coffee House, $55 (1,000p) ISBN 978-1-56689-685-6
Presented in one generous volume for the first time, Finnish poet Hollo’s avant-garde poems are drawn from over five decades of musings and ruminations that display his blend of humor, sagacity, and whimsy through unexpected observations about daily
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