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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Poet
and editor
Michael Gizzi,
known equally well for his own verbally inventive work and for publishing the work of other innovative poets (he used to edit Hard Press and
lingo magazine), has
died. He got his start studying at Brown with National Book Award winning poet and editor
Keith Waldrop, whose Burning Deck Press published Gizzi's most recent collection,
New Depths of Deadpan. The first ("Michael") link has many further links to Google Books versions of Gizzi's collections (as usual semi-blocked, but you can flip through them to get a sense of the career).
posted by aught
on Sep 30, 2010 -
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