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The Tortoise of History

The Tortoise of History

by Anselm Hollo

Published by: Coffee House Press

Imprint: Coffee House Press

112 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

Paperback
9781566894449
Published: August 2016

$16.00

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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.

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

Formal Prosody

The Stars

There's Times

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

Anselm Hollo is the author of more than forty books and an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, Hollo has lived in the United States for thirty-seven years and now teaches at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. His most recent collection of poems, Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence, received the San Francisco Poetry Center Award.

“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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