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Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (born
April 12,
1934) is a
Finnish poet and translator. He has lived most of his life in the
United States.
Life and work
Anselm Hollo was born in Finland. His father,
Juho Aukusti Hollo` (1885–1967) — who liked to be (and was usually) known as "J.A." Hollo — was Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Helsinki, an essayist, and a major translator of literature into Finnish. His mother was Iris Antonina Anna Walden, a music teacher and daughter of organic chemist
Paul Walden. He lived for eight years in the
United Kingdom and has been a permanent resident in the United States since the late 1960s. He now lives in
Boulder, Colorado with his wife, artist Jane Dalrymple-Hollo.
He has published more than forty titles of poetry in the UK and in the US, in a style strongly influenced by the American
beat poets. His work has appeared in many anthologies, including (1969),
British Poetry since 1945 and
Jon Silkin's
Poetry of the Committed Individual (1973). He has received many awards, including
NEA and Poets Foundation fellowships, and the
San Francisco Poetry Center Award for the best book of poems published in 2001,
Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000.
In 1965, he performed at the "
underground"
International Poetry Incarnation, London. In 2001, poets and critics associated with the
SUNY Buffalo
POETICS list elected Hollo to the honorary position of "anti-laureate", in protest at the appointment of
Billy Collins to the position of
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
Hollo has translated
poetry and
belles-lettres from
Finnish,
German,
Swedish and
French into
English. In 2004, he won the
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
He has taught
creative writing in eighteen different institutions of higher learning, including
SUNY Buffalo, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the
University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1989, he's taught in the
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at
Naropa University, where he now holds the rank of Full Professor.
Poets
Ted Berrigan and
Alice Notley named their son
Anselm Berrigan after Hollo.
Selected Publications
- Maya (1970)
- Alembic (1972)
- Sojourner Microcosms: New & Selected Poems 1959–1977 (1977) (ISBN 0-912652-39-X)
- Finite Continued (1980) (ISBN 0-912652-68-3)
- Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: Selected Poems 1965–2000 (2000)
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