{{Short description|Finnish poet and translator (1934–2013)}} {{Infobox person | name = Anselm Hollo | image = Gloria Graham Anselm Hollo.jpg | caption = Hollo during the making of ''Add-Verse,'' 2005 | birth_name = Paavo Anselm Aleksis Hollo | other_names = Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo | birth_date = 12 April 1934 | birth_place = [[Helsinki]], Finland | death_date = {{death date and age|2013|1|29|1934|4|12|df=y}} | death_place = [[Boulder, Colorado]], U.S. | occupation = Poet and translator | years_active = | father = [[Juho August Hollo]] | spouse = {{plainlist| * Josephine Clare * Jane Dalrymple }} | children = 3 | relatives = [[Paul Walden]] (maternal grandfather) }} [[File:Anselm Hollo in Speaking Portraits.jpg|thumb|Hollo in Speaking Portraits]] [[File:12 Why There's A Cat Curfew in My House.oga|thumb|Anselm Hollo 'Why there is a Cat Curfew in my House".]] '''Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo''' (12 April 1934 – 29 January 2013) was a [[Finnish people|Finnish]] poet and translator. He lived in the [[United States]] from 1967 until his death in January 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2013/02/in-memoriam-anselm-hollo-1934-2013/ |title=In memoriam Anselm Hollo 1934–2013|first=Soila |last=Lehtonen |work=Books From Finland |date=1 February 2013 |access-date=February 2, 2013}}</ref>
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 poetry|beat poets]] and the [[New York School (art)|New York School]].
==Personal life== Paavo Anselm Aleksis Hollo was born in [[Helsinki]], Finland. His father, [[Juho August Hollo]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jahollo.htm |title=Juho August Hollo |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205215128/http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jahollo.htm |archive-date=5 December 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (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]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1880181 |title= Yks tavallinen Toivanen |author= Östling, Tom |date= 9 May 2013 |publisher= [[YLE]] |trans-title= ‘A Certain Ordinary Toivanen’ |access-date= 2013-05-09 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130604193024/http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1880181 |archive-date= 4 June 2013 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
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 "[[UK underground|underground]]" [[International Poetry Incarnation]], London. Also in the same year, the first customer of the [[Indica Gallery|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.<ref>{{cite book |title=Many Years from Now |last=Miles |first=Barry |year=1997 |publisher=Secker & Warburg |location=London |isbn=0-436-28022-1 |page=225 }}</ref>
In 2001, poets and critics associated with the [[State University of New York|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 [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|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.<ref>[https://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/522 Anselm Hollo- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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 == * 1979: [[National Endowment for the Arts|NEA]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Literature Fellowships |url=https://www.arts.gov/grants/recent-grants/literature-fellowships |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=www.arts.gov |language=en}}</ref> and Poets Foundation fellowships{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} * 1996: Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry 1995–1996<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cyberpoems.com/abtans-h.html |title=Anselm Hollo |access-date=2011-02-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005111809/http://cyberpoems.com/abtans-h.html |archive-date=2010-10-05 }}</ref> * 1996: Finnish State Award for Foreign Translators<ref>{{Cite web |title=Finnish state award for foreign translators |url=https://fili.fi/en/for-translators/finnish-state-award-for-foreign-translators/ |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=FILI |language=en-GB}}</ref> * 2001: best book of poems Award by the [[San Francisco Poetry Center]], for ''Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: New and Selected Poems 1965–2000''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Poetry Center honors Anselm Hollo with annual book award |url=https://www.sfsu.edu/~news/2002/131.htm |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=www.sfsu.edu}}</ref> * 2004: [[Harold Morton Landon Translation Award]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Poets |first=Academy of American |title=Harold Morton Landon Translation Award {{!}} Academy of American Poets |url=https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/harold-morton-landon-translation-award |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=poets.org}}</ref>
== Selected publications == * ''Sateiden välillä'', runoja. Otava, Helsinki 1956 * ''& (And) what else is new : a small pamphlet''. Chatham, Kent: New Voice, 1963 * ''Jazz poems''. London: Vista Books, 1963 * ''& (And) it is a song : poems''. Birmingham: Migrant Press, 1965 * ''Faces & Forms: Poems''. London: Ambit, 1965 * ''Word from the North : new poetry from Finland, edited, translated and introduction by Anselm Hollo''. Blackburn London : Lancs., Poetmeat: Strangers Press, 1965 * ''The claim''. London: Goliard Press, 1966 * {{cite book| title=Maya| publisher=Cape Goliard Press| year=1970| isbn=978-0-670-46347-3 }} *''Alembic'', Trigram Press (distributed by [[Allison and Busby]], 1972 * {{cite book| title=Sojourner Microcosms: New & Selected Poems 1959–1977| date=January 1977| publisher=Blue Wind Press| isbn=978-0-912652-39-9 }} * ''Finite Continued'', Blue Wind Press, 1980 ({{ISBN|0-912652-68-3}}) * {{cite book| title=Corvus: poems |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KwNAtjgB4YAC| publisher=Coffee House Press| year=1995| isbn=978-1-56689-039-7 }} * {{cite book| title=Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: Selected Poems 1965–2000| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPeKE6jqQxsC&q=inauthor%3AAnselm+inauthor%3AHollo+sojourner&pg=PP6| publisher=Coffee House Press| year=2001| isbn=978-1-56689-113-4 }}
===Anthologies=== * {{cite book| title=[[Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain]]| editor=[[Michael Horovitz]]| publisher=[[Penguin Books]]| year=1969 }} * {{cite book| title=[[British Poetry since 1945]]| editor=[[Edward Lucie-Smith]]| publisher=Penguin| year=1970 }} * {{cite book| editor=Jon Silkin| editor-link=Jon Silkin| title=Poetry of the Committed Individual| year=1973| isbn=0-14-042159-9| publisher=Penguin }}
==See also== {{Portal|Poetry}} *''[[The Czar's Madman]]''
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
== Further reading ==
* {{Writers in Finland 1945-1980}}
== External links == * [http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_10/broken_news/hollo.html The Anti-Laureate Announcement] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070501234940/http://www.samizdateditions.com/issue3/hollo1.html Poems online] at ''[[Samizdat (poetry magazine)]]'' * [https://web.archive.org/web/20180808012118/http://www.add-verse.info/ "Add-Verse"] a poetry-photo-video project Hollo participated in. * [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/01/rip-anselm-hollo/ Poetry Foundation announcement of Hollo's death]
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