Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Anselm Hollo's most recent book of poems uses the sonnet to invite us into a conversation with poets and thinkers both here and gone. "Spawned from a clan of Baltic translators and companioned with the finest poetry gunslingers of the New World, who better to write an elegy for the West than Anselm Hollo?"-Lisa Jarnot. "If I say this is a very beautiful but sad book, you might not read it, but you must read it or you won't know enough. Form: the personal sonnet (that is, made Hollo's - can you imagine how tricky that might be?) with shining white space between the lines. Metaphysics: of the concrete, and the literary (what one knows because one Reads Books). 'Does Poetry Help?' 'Assignment: Look at these lines / Again in a hundred years'"-Alice Notley.
Synopsis
Anselm Hollo hangs his poetic hat upon the sonnet, graciously inviting us into his conversation with poets and thinkers, both here and gone, on subjects that range from environmentalism to the WTO protests, from wars waged in Kosovo and Iraq to questions of creativity and mortality.
With trademark wit, acumen, and charm, Hollo's contribution to this multigenerational, international choir is one of the most important and enjoyable in contemporary letters.
Andrei Codrescu has said he awaits Hollo's new poems with more eagerness than those of any other living poet, and Library Journal urges us not to miss anything at all by this strong poet.
Synopsis
Death! Truth! Meaning of Life/ Love! Romanticism! Loss! Reality! Consciousness!"--all here in Hollo's modern sonnets.
About the Author
Hollo is renowned poet and translator, who teaches at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.