Anselm Hollo

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Anselm Hollo (2005)

Paavo Anselm Aleksis Hollo (born April 12, 1934 in Helsinki ; † January 29, 2013 ) was a Finnish poet and literary translator . He lived in the United States of America since 1967 ; there he published under the name Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo .

Life

Paavo Anselm Aleksis Hollos father was Juho Aukusti (JA) Hollo (1885–1967), a professor of philosophy at the University of Helsinki , writer, essayist and leading translator into Finnish . His mother, Iris Antonina Anna Walden, was a music teacher. She is the daughter of the well-known chemist Paul Walden .

Anselm Hollo lived in Great Britain for eight years with his first wife, the poet Josephine Clare and their three children Hannes, Kaarina and Tamsin. He emigrated to the United States in the late 1960s and lived with his new family in Boulder, Colorado . He was married to the artist Jane Dalrymple-Hollo for the second time.

Hollo published over forty volumes of his own poetry; his poetry was shaped by the Beat Generation . Hollo was an early translator from Allen Ginsberg into German. With Josephine Hollo, he translated the main work by William Carlos Williams , the five-volume poem Paterson , into German. Hollo translated into English from Swedish, Finnish, French and German.

In 1965 he performed at the International Poetry Incarnation underground festival in London. In 2001 he was named an Honorary “Non-Elect” by poets and critics at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York , as a token of the nomination of Billy Collins as the Chosen Poet and Poetry Advisor to the American Library of Congress (the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress ).

Hollo has taught creative writing at eighteen universities and colleges, a. a. at the State University of New York Buffalo, the Iowa Writers' Workshop , the University of Colorado Boulder , since 1989 at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics , at the University of Naropa , where he was full professor.

The composer and pianist Frank Carlberg has set his works to music and the New York poets Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley have named their son Anselm Berrigan after him.

Honors

  • 2004: Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
  • Award of the San Francisco Poetry Center for the best volume of poetry of 2001: Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: New and Selected Poems 1965–2000
  • 1996: The Finnish Government Prize for Translation of Finnish Literature
  • 1996: Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry 1995–1996
  • 1979: National Endowment for the Arts and Poets Foundation Scholarships
  • 1976: New York State Creative Artists' Public Service Award

Works (selection)

Anthologies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anselm Hollo, RIP
  2. ↑ www.kirjasto.sci.fi ( Memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) biography of the father, accessed on May 13, 2008. English
  3. ^ William Carlos Williams: Paterson . Goverts, Stuttgart 1970
  4. ↑ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/522
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cyberpoems.com
personal data
SURNAME Hollo, Anselm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hollo, Paavo Anselm Alexis (full name); Hollo, Paul Anselm Alexis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki , Finland
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2013