Pick Up the House - Softcover

Hollo, Anselm

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ISBN 10: 0918273188 ISBN 13: 9780918273185

Publisher: Coffee House Press, 1986

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"Hollo's poetry continually confounds as well as exceeds the reader's expectations."--Small Press

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About the Author:

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.

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1962, October Dreams
After Novalis
Amazing Grace
Anthropology
August
An Autobiography
Big Dog
Botanica
Bro Joe
De Amor Y Otras Cosas
The Dream Of Instant Total Representation
Dream Rain Dance
Encouragement, From Two Hundred Years Ago
Evensong 1965
Flowering Weeds
Friend Friends
Hearing
Helsinki, 1940
How It Works
How Sad Is The Mechanical Moose!
In The Mission
In The Voice Of Jane To Her Mother
The Independent Sound System
It Is Hot
Journey, 1966
Landing In The Trees
Late Night Dream Movies
Letter
The Lies, The Eyes
Long Ways
Looking At A Book Of Chinese Seals
Minotaur Poem
Mission Aubade
A Model
Night Wind Pieces
On The Occassion Of A Poet's Death
Page
Parting
Petit Chanson
Pup Canto
Put In A Quaver, Here And There
Question
A Round For The Trout Fisher
Sad Little Number
See You Later
See You Tomorrow (we Hope)
Shed The Fear
Some
Something I Stole & Would Like You To See
Sonnet
Sorpresa
Stars And Stripes Forever
A Toke For Li Po
Valid
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

Anselm Hollo's Pick Up the House is a satisfying, lyrical mix of both old and new poems, including some from his highly praised Toothpaste Press chapbook Heavy jars, gathered together in one volume. Hollo's method is simple and direct. Written in an open colloquial style, his poems invite one to share in his commentary and intuition. Pausing often, he allows us to catch the music and grace in the trivial and seemingly commonplace. "One of those quiet moments when things fall into shape and be..."(Petit Chanson) His poems are the stuff of such moments, from the shape of a loved one's waist in the half-light of evening to a world rollicking in the "boogie-woogie of creation." Curiously organized around silence, his longer sequenced poems ("In the Mission," "Late Night Dream Movies," "De Amor y Otras Cosas") use the brief space between sequences to make us discern or sense the connection with what went before. Many of these run on pure emotion, thoughts strung together by location. Yet, this is reflective of Hollo's real talent, a hand so sure and inviting that the reader can be led to the necessary conclusions. But it is in the short lyric where Hollo excells, with a sense of line derived from Williams and Creeley and a sense of humor straight from the New York School, he captures the possibilities of transient moments, becoming both commentator and object of comment. With more jukes and jumps than Michael Jordan, Hollo's poetry continually confounds as well as exceeds the reader's expectations. This volume is a welcome follow-up to Hollo's excellent 1983 Coffee House collection No Complaints. -- From Independent Publisher

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