Anselm Hollo, Finnish-born
poet, translator, and teacher, has died. A
major figure in the
poetry avant garde for decades, Hollo was a professor at the
Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Robert Archambeau writes: "Hollo's grasp of the gulf between the sublimity of which poetry is capable, and the absurdities into which poets fall in pursuit of that chimera, a 'career in poetry,' made him the ideal person to hold the
title of United States Anti-Laureate, to which he was elected by the
Buffalo POETICS list back at the turn of the century."
posted by aught
on Jan 30, 2013 -
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