Anselm Hollo
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Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (born April 12, 1934) is a prolific Finnish-born poet and translator, who lived for some time in the United Kingdom and has been resident since the late 1960s in the United States. As of 2005 he teaches at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
He has translated from Finnish, German and Russian into English. He has also written poetry, in a style strongly influenced by American beat poets and appears in the anthology British Poetry since 1945 (Penguin).
His father was Juho Aukusti Hollo (1885 – 1967), an essayist and major translator of literature into Finnish; his mother was the singer Iris Antonina Anna Walden.
In 2001 poets and critics associated with the POETICS list elected Hollo to the honorary position of anti-laureate, in protest of the appointment of Billy Collins to the position of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Poets Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley named their son Anselm Berrigan after Mr. Hollo.
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[edit] Selected Publications
- Maya (1970)
- Alembic (1972)
- Sojourner Microcosms: New & Selected Poems 1959–1977 (1977) (ISBN 0912652-39-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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