Anselm Hollo

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Anselm Hollo
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Hollo during the making of Add-Verse, 2005
Born
Paavo Anselm Aleksis Hollo

12 April 1934
Helsinki, Finland
Died29 January 2013(2013-01-29) (aged 78)
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Other namesAnselm Paul Alexis Hollo
Occupation(s)Poet and translator
Spouses
  • Josephine Clare
  • Jane Dalrymple
Children3
Parent(s) Juho August Hollo
Iris Walden
Relatives Paul Walden (maternal grandfather)
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Hollo in Speaking Portraits
Anselm Hollo 'Why there is a Cat Curfew in my House".

Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (12 April 1934 – 29 January 2013) was a Finnish poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1967 until his death in January 2013. [1]

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Hollo published more than forty titles of poetry in the United Kingdom and in the United States, with a style strongly influenced by the American beat poets.

Personal life

Paavo Anselm Aleksis Hollo was born in Helsinki, Finland. His father, Juho August Hollo [2] (1885–1967) — who liked to be known as "J. A." Hollo — was professor of pedagogy at the University of Helsinki, an essayist, and a major translator of literature into Finnish. His mother was Iris Antonina Anna Walden (1899–1983), a music teacher and daughter of organic chemist Paul Walden. He lived for eight years in the United Kingdom, and had three children (Hannes, Kaarina, and Tamsin) with his first wife, poet Josephine Clare. He was a permanent resident in the United States from the late 1960s until his death. At the time of his death, he resided in Boulder, Colorado, with his second wife, artist Jane Dalrymple-Hollo.

Career

In the 1960s, Hollo lived in London, England, and worked at the Finnish section of BBC World Service. One of his tasks there was to write radio dramas in Finnish, together with another Finnish poet, Matti Rossi. The music to their productions was written by Erkki Toivanen. [3]

Around this time, Hollo was also beginning to make a name for himself as a poet in the English language. In 1965, he performed at the "underground" International Poetry Incarnation, London. Also in the same year, the first customer of the Indica Bookshop, a certain Paul McCartney, is known to have bought, among other things, the book & it is a song by Anselm Hollo the day before the bookshop was officially opened. [4]

In 2001, poets and critics associated with the SUNY Buffalo POETICS list elected Hollo to the honorary position of "anti-laureate", in protest at the appointment of Billy Collins to the position of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

Hollo translated poetry and belles-lettres from Finnish, German, Swedish, and French into English. He was one of the early translators of Allen Ginsberg into German and Finnish.

Hollo taught creative writing in eighteen different institutions of higher learning, including SUNY Buffalo, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 1985, he taught in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where he held the rank of Full Professor. [5]

Several of his poems have been set into music by pianist and composer Frank Carlberg. Poets Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley named their son Anselm Berrigan after Hollo.

Hollo became ill during the summer of 2012 and had brain surgery. He died from post-operative pneumonia on 29 January 2013, at the age of 78.

Awards

Selected publications

Anthologies

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Lehtonen, Soila (1 February 2013). "In memoriam Anselm Hollo 1934–2013". Books From Finland. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ Liukkonen, Petri. "Juho August Hollo". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 5 December 2006.
  3. ↑ Östling, Tom (9 May 2013). "Yks tavallinen Toivanen" [‘A Certain Ordinary Toivanen’]. YLE. Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  4. ↑ Miles, Barry (1997). Many Years from Now. London: Secker & Warburg. p. 225. ISBN   0-436-28022-1.
  5. ↑ Anselm Hollo- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
  6. ↑ "Literature Fellowships". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  7. ↑ "Anselm Hollo". Archived from the original on 2010-10-05. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  8. ↑ "Finnish state award for foreign translators". FILI. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  9. ↑ "Poetry Center honors Anselm Hollo with annual book award". www.sfsu.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  10. ↑ Poets, Academy of American. "Harold Morton Landon Translation Award | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
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