The Tortoise of History
Published on 18. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-56689-444-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
?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 "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
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Language
English
Place of publication
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United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56689-444-9 (9781566894449)
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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. After a decade in England writing and broadcasting for the BBC European Services, Hollo eventually settled in the United States in 1966, where he taught at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. His collection of poems, Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence, received the San Francisco Poetry Center Award.
Content
Part 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
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