Caws & Causeries: Around Poetry and Poets - Softcover

Hollo, Anselm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888809159 ISBN 13: 9781888809152

Publisher: La Alameda Press, 1999

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Anselm Hollo, a renowned poet and translator, is professor of writing and poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

From the Back Cover

Prose writings by the internationally-known poet and teacher from the Naropa Institute.

Edition details

• Publisher: La Alameda Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888809159
• ISBN 13: 9781888809152
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166