Anselm
Hollo (b. Finland / USA)
1934-2013
In the US, Hollow taught a several
universities and colleges, including the State University of New York in
Buffalo and Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Hollo’s own work, although grounded in European modernism, was highly influenced by the Beat poems. Before his death in 2013, he had published over forty books of poetry, winning the San Francisco Poetry Center Award for his Poems 1965-2000.
Hollo was also a skilled translation,
translating works and gathering anthologies in both Swedish and Finnish. Among
his Finnish translations were major works by poets Paavo Haavikko and Pentti
Saarikoski. He won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for his work in
that field.
Hollo also won a fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and the Government of
Finland’s Distinguished Foreign Translator’s Award. He also won The PIP
Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative Poetry in English.
Hollo, with his wife, artist Jane
Dalrymple-Hollo, lived until his death in Boulder.
BOOKS
OF POETRY
Negro Verse (London: Vista
Books, 1964); & It Is a Song: Poems (Birmingham,
England: Migrant Press, 1965); The Claim (London:
Goliard Press, 1965); Faces & Forms (London:
Ambit, 1965); Haiku. A Strange Life (London:
Trigram Press, 1968); The Coherences (London:;
Trigram Press, 1968); The Man in the
Treetop Hat (London: Turret, 1968); America
del norte & Other Peace Herb Poems (Toronto: Weed/Flower Press, 1970); Gee Apollinaire: Birth of a Poem (Iowa
City: Nomad Press, 1970); Maya: Works, 1969-1969
(London: Cape Goliard, 1970); Alembic
(London: Trigram Press, 1972); Some
Worlds (New Rochelle, New York: Elizabeth Press, 1973); Spring Cleaning Greens: From Notebooks
1967-1973 (Bowling Green, Ohio: Doones Press, 1973); Heavy Jars (West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1977); Sojourner Microcosms: New & Selected
Poems, 1958-1977 (Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1977); At the Carrying Place (Buffalo, New York: White Pine Press, 1978); Curious Data (Buffalo, New York: White
Pine Press, 1978); Finite Continued (Berkeley,
California: Blue Wind Press, 1980); No
Coomplaints (West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1983); Pick Up the House: New & Selected Poems (Minneapolis:
Coffee House Press, 1986); Arcana Gardens
(Denver: Lodo Art & Boxing Team, 1989);
Outlying Districts: Poems (Minneapolis:
Coffee House Press, 1990); Near Miss
Haiku: Praises, Laments, Aphorisms, Reports (Chicago: Yellow Press, 1990); Corvus: Poems (Minneapolis: Coffee
House Press, 1995); Pebbles (Ellsworth,
Maine: Backwoods Broadsides, 1998); Notes
on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: Selected Poems, 1965-2000
(Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2001); Guests
of Space: Poems (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2007)
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