The Tortoise of History - Softcover

Hollo, Anselm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566894441 ISBN 13: 9781566894449

Verlag: COFFEE HOUSE PR, 2016

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From "Art History":

Someone comes along
gives that tedious old thing
a new twist or
breaks its neck

the old questions
don't change:

what do you want me to say?
what do you want me to do?

Anselm Hollo (1934–2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo eventually settled in the United States in 1966, where he taught at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

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Anselm Hollo (1934-2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish and English by age ten. After a decade in England writing and broadcasting for the BBC European Services, Hollo eventually settled in the United States in 1966, where he taught at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. His collection of poems, Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence, received the San Francisco Poetry Center Award.

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The Tortoise of History

By Anselm Hollo

COFFEE HOUSE PRESS

Copyright © 2016 Anselm Hollo
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-56689-444-9

Contents

Foreword, xi, 
PART 1: The Tortoise of History, 
3 Wildly Tangled, 
4 Quake, 
5 Don't Tell Me, 
6 Why Not, 
7 She Said, 
8 Art History, 
9 Home, 
10 Some Ways, 
11 City Of, 
12 "Why Read So Much?", 
13 Time, 
14 Dasein, 
16 Somewhere, 
17 Who Said He Could Do This, 
18 Boulder, Colorado, 
19 "There Is Room in the Room That I Room In", 
20 Who Would Have Thought — Santa Ganesh!, 
21 100-Year-Old Poet, 
22 Nothing, 
23 Rides with Bob Creeley, 
25 Bug Killed Our Tree, 
26 The Less Known, 
27 Rainy Night, 
28 New Year's Poem, 
29 Crocus, 
30 More So Than Before, 
31 Broken Flowers, 
32 African Gray Parrot with a Brain the Size of a Walnut Understands a Numerical Concept Akin to Zero, 
33 Listen to the Long Hiss of Time, 
34 The Way They Pop Up Now, 
35 Mirlitonnade, 
36 A Valentine, 
37 "Growing Old Together", 
38 The Bugs Sang Grand, 
39 You Were Talking (1967), 
40 The Pika, 
41 75, 
42 Formal Prosody, 
43 The Stars, 
44 As, 
45 A Place Is a While, 
46 After They've Gone, 
47 Still, 
48 Reading Joanne Kyger, 
49 Hunchback Mountain, 
50 Late Night, Old Surprises, 
51 Noir, 
52 Running, 
53 Sitting in Peaceful Lamplight, 
54 At Civitella Ranieri, 
55 The Bard of the Pyrenees, 
58 See What You Got, Tomorrow (2002), 
60 Looking at the Old Hand, 
61 Two Strange Little Vessels, 
63 James Butler A.K.A. Wild Bill Hickok's Final Stream of Consciousness, 
64 Blue Moon, 
65 Another One Gone Too Soon, 
66 2010 A Spring of Departures, 
67 The Tortoise of History, 
PART 2: Hipponax, His Poems, 
77 I Careless Love, 
83 II What a Mob, 
86 III Screech Screech Here Come the Ghosts (Or, "People Who Died"), 
88 IV Still Waiting for My Winter Coat, 

CHAPTER 1

    Wildly Tangled

    wildly tangled dream:
    festivities
    with current presidente
    quite a nice guy really

    old face old cat in mail

    wind drives propaganda
    so have a last capitalist
    cigarette
    in this lame old plutocracy

    everybody
    seems quite happily occupied
    by their precious little lives

    but She Who Must Be Obeyed
    She Who Laughs at Your Jokes

    love them both as one
    as best you can


    Quake

    The ocean sure is a BIG tub
    the continents
      none too solid
    they growl!
      TECTONIC GRIND
    "say something?"
    LA TERRA TREMA
    but not right here
    not right now
    I love your hair
      atop your dancer's body
    absolute loveliness
      in a quaking world


    Don't Tell Me

    Don't tell me you can't
    love the dead
    sometimes I love the dead more
    than the still living

    there was a time
    one sounded as
    "authoritative"
    as any so-called media

    (in my case
    shortwave radio person
    for ten cold war years)

    and they all
    old amigos
    young apprentices
    do still sound that way

    not the same but
      just that way


    Why Not

    put the book mark
    at the wrong page


    She Said

    Don't fret she said
    it's all right

    a human
    is not a machine


    Art History

    Someone comes along
    gives that tedious old thing
    a new twist or
    breaks its neck

    the old questions
    don't change:

    what do you want me to say?
    what do you want me to do?


    Home

    For jdh

    When we drove across
    all those states
    away from your old hometown
    and you were crying

    for good reason
    (familiar familial strife)
    I tried to console you
    and worried about how to do that

    until I thought I knew
    and told you we're going home now
    even though then
    we had no idea
    where home really would be


    Some Ways

    Some ways you know more
    than ever before

    some ways
    it has become

    even harder
    to convey that increase


    City Of

    City OF, says Alice
    that's what they all are, the cities
    OF
    they're OF
    OF pain OF love OF life OF hurt OF dying
    OF memory ach yes OF mamma mia


    Why Read So Much?

    Why read
    so much?

    to see
    what others

    may have
    found out

    and we
    would not

    want to
    miss

    before
    we die


    Time

    Too slow
    when you're
    not here


    Dasein

    Lightness, my foot?
    the incredible ONSLAUGHT of being!

    feeling floaty
...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: COFFEE HOUSE PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1566894441
• ISBN 13: 9781566894449
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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