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This collection of prose writings by an internationallyknown poet includes an autobiographical essay describing Hollo'sremarkable odyssey from the time he left his native Finland for theUnited States as a high school student until he settled in Colorado inthe late 1980s. Other pieces in the collection, ranging from briefpieces ("caws") to more extended "causeries" (informalessays), include "Some Aereated Prose for a Panel on"experimental writing," "Gregorio the Herald" (atribute to Gregory Corso), discussions of other poets, among them TomRaworth and Francis Ponge, "What Was It Like: A Remembrance ofAllen Ginsberg's Howl," and a sampling of a lifetime'sobservations on poetry and poets. What emerges is a lively,unabashedly opinionated, always personal poetics forged in associationand friendship with numerous "New American" poets: the Beats,the Black Mountain poets, the New York School, the Language poets, andthe perennially unclassifiable and enigmatic. ... Read more

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an interesting memoir by a great transreal author
if you like any of rucker's books and want to know more about him this is an excellent choice. i havn't read the poem section tho. sometimes forgot it was nonfiction (just love that rudy). on the zig-zag scale, it scores anunprecedented slo-burning kut-kornered 9! ... Read more

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The major collection of Anselm Hollo's poetry. ... Read more

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Three dialogues among famous personages of the past offer an extended essay on the philosophy of the theater. Anchoring each of the dialogues is the great Russian film director and theoretician Sergei Eisenstein, whose artistic theories run throughout the book, illustrating the influences that affected the Soviet art world in the period between the two world wars . ... Read more

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“From the late nineteen-fifties through the early seventies, Pentti Saarikoski (1937–83) was a spokesman for what European historians now refer to as the Generation of ’68. He was a highly literate and iconoclastic radical in a ‘buffer zone’ country whose political climate in the Cold War years presented far greater ambiguities than that of the major Western European states. He was, for a time, a youth idol—the popular press referred to him as ‘The Blond Beatle of the North’—whose often scandalous public behavior and pronouncements, combined with his introduction of uninhibited Finnish vernacular into the language of literature (particularly in his translations of Ulysses and The Catcher in the Rye), shocked his elders in much the same way that William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg jolted the establishment in the United States. The titles of some of his books from that period—Out Loud, The Red Flags, I Look Out Over Stalin’s Head—indicate his search for a public and engagé mode of poetry. . . . In Trilogy, Saarikoski takes an extended, amused, bemused, and unpretentious look at some of the ‘thousand things’ previously sidestepped or unnoticed: the chores of dailiness; his both familiar and unfamiliar surroundings; memories thought long buried . . . Saarikoski often spoke of his conviction that poetry and walking were closely related activities; he also said: ‘What I prefer to surround myself with is accidental, not intended, not premeditated, just left there, forgotten, lying around on the table—we’ll use what comes to hand.’ I have found his Trilogy a great book to leave lying around on my table. Very often, when it has ‘come to hand,’ the way it bears witness to the world’s signs has shifted them into a new light, a light whose curious, even idiosyncratic sanity justifies his claim that Herakleitos is a ‘staff member’ of his poetry. In life, Saarikoski often seemed to himself and others, not always happily, a ‘brother from another planet’; in his work, he made that planet worth a visit and a thoughtful stroll.”—excerpted from Anselm Hollo’sForeword

Anselm Hollo was born in Helsinki, Finland and was educated there and in the United States. He is now on the faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Poetics,The Naropa University, in Boulder, Colorado, where he and his wife make their home. Hollo’s own poetry has been widely anthologized, and some of it has been translated into Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, and Swedish. ... Read more

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An intelligent and melancholic Finnish poet
The trilogy represents the last and best of Saarikoski's output, just before his death, and is one of the rare bits available in English.The trilogy contains his long poems, broken into sections, that combine a northern European sensibility (joy for the green blades of grass and despair at the burdensome winter just ahead) with his love for Greek mythology, gnosticism, and the Greek New Testament.

One can find a taste of Saarikoski's poetry in the Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry.His writing is clever but always accessible. ... Read more

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Hardcover, 270 pages, text in English. ... Read more