Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence
, by Hollo, AnselmNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781566891158 | 1566891159
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 7/1/2001
Wry, sly, hip--the selected poems of the past thirty-five years of Anselm Hollo.
Air, to Dream In | p. 2 |
The Red Piano | p. 3 |
La Noche | p. 5 |
The Low Black Square | p. 6 |
Introduction | p. 8 |
The Empress Hotel Poems | p. 9 |
Instances | p. 12 |
For the Sea-Sons and Daughters We All Are | p. 15 |
The Coherences | p. 16 |
Isadora | p. 19 |
Buffalo - Isle of Wight Power Cable | p. 20 |
Possible Definitions of 'Beauty' and 'Happiness' | p. 21 |
The Charge | p. 22 |
Le Jazz Hot | p. 23 |
The One | p. 23 |
5 and 7 and 5 | p. 25 |
Chanson | p. 29 |
Tumbleweed | p. 30 |
Man Animal Clock of Blood | p. 32 |
That Old Sauna High | p. 33 |
In the Octagonal Room | p. 34 |
Bits of Soft Anxiety | p. 35 |
Your Friend | p. 36 |
Sunset with Blame | p. 38 |
The New Style Western | p. 39 |
Elegy | p. 40 |
They | p. 40 |
Rain | p. 41 |
Any News from Alpha Centauri | p. 42 |
He She Because How | p. 44 |
Traveler | p. 46 |
As It Is | p. 47 |
De Amore | p. 48 |
"it is a well-lit afternoon" | p. 51 |
"in love we loaf" | p. 53 |
At This Point, the Moon ... | p. 54 |
After Verlaine | p. 55 |
Dining Out Alone | p. 55 |
Autobiographical Broadcasting Corporation | p. 56 |
Double Martini | p. 56 |
Zooming | p. 57 |
Antioch, Illinois | p. 58 |
Strange Encounter | p. 58 |
To Be Born Again | p. 59 |
"the force of being she released in him being" | p. 60 |
"cloud of dust or roses (rose) in the head" | p. 60 |
"grew up in Finland" | p. 61 |
Elephant Rock | p. 62 |
1939 | p. 62 |
"one of the pines has a bend in it" | p. 63 |
"where was it I" | p. 64 |
"it is said the Chinese believe that the human eye" | p. 66 |
"Once in Khairouan ..." | p. 66 |
"anyone, say, a girl named May" | p. 67 |
Things to Do in Salzburg | p. 68 |
World World World | p. 70 |
Marchen (Beginner's Luck) | p. 75 |
No Money | p. 75 |
Classroom | p. 76 |
Tremendous Wind and Rain | p. 76 |
The Walden Variations | p. 77 |
Indian Summers | p. 78 |
Song 1 | p. 80 |
Song 7 | p. 81 |
Bicentennial | p. 82 |
Life 2 | p. 82 |
Message | p. 83 |
"the beetle wakes up" | p. 84 |
La Cucaracha | p. 84 |
You | p. 86 |
Info | p. 86 |
"nightfall image:" | p. 87 |
Saturday | p. 87 |
"awkward spring" | p. 89 |
Helsinki, 1940 | p. 90 |
"slowly" | p. 91 |
In a Tin Can Mirror | p. 92 |
"summer nights" | p. 93 |
"the language" | p. 94 |
"it is the thinking" | p. 95 |
Big Dog | p. 97 |
Dedication: A Toke for Li Po | p. 98 |
"memory rain pride wind" | p. 100 |
"kicking Manhattan to pieces every night" | p. 101 |
"Po Chu-yi heard them ..." | p. 102 |
"animation subsides into terminal slapstick" | p. 102 |
"in the Marshall Minnesota Quickstop" | p. 103 |
Or, to Hocus the Animals of the Pursuers ... | p. 105 |
Behaviorally | p. 114 |
Southwest Minnesota | p. 115 |
The Years | p. 116 |
TV (1) | p. 117 |
TV (2) | p. 117 |
Manifest Destiny | p. 119 |
Songs of the Sentence Cubes | p. 120 |
Doc Holliday | p. 122 |
The Images of Day Recede | p. 123 |
Romance | p. 124 |
Dirge | p. 126 |
Ten Cheremiss (Mari) Songs | p. 127 |
No Complaints | p. 130 |
Valid | p. 133 |
Some | p. 133 |
Sorpresa | p. 134 |
Page | p. 135 |
On the Occasion of a Poet's Death | p. 136 |
Letter | p. 136 |
See You Later | p. 137 |
Put in a Quaver, Here and There | p. 139 |
Late Night Dream Movies | p. 141 |
An Autobiography | p. 144 |
De Amor y Otras Cosas | p. 145 |
Diary | p. 149 |
Pocatello, Idaho | p. 150 |
Anti-Lullaby | p. 151 |
The Ass Waggeth His Ears | p. 152 |
The Tenth of May (1988) | p. 153 |
In the Land of Art | p. 154 |
Tarp | p. 155 |
In the "Hip" Little Bookshop | p. 156 |
"It Was All About ..." | p. 157 |
In the Library of Poets' Recordings | p. 158 |
Letter to Uncle O. | p. 159 |
Idyll | p. 160 |
The Missing Page | p. 161 |
Alla Petrarca | p. 162 |
No Detachment | p. 163 |
La Vida | p. 164 |
Brother (D.H.) Lawrence | p. 165 |
Glenwood Springs | p. 166 |
Arcana Gardens | p. 167 |
End of the Range | p. 182 |
Irritable Aliens | p. 182 |
Two Parts | p. 183 |
Angel Wings | p. 184 |
Home on the Shelf | p. 185 |
Space Baltic | p. 186 |
Cloud Watch | p. 187 |
Answering | p. 188 |
The Older Artist | p. 190 |
After Ungaretti | p. 191 |
Paradiso Terrestre | p. 192 |
Les Americains | p. 193 |
Near Miss Haiku | p. 194 |
Born Today | p. 197 |
Swing High Swing Woe | p. 199 |
A Town Dedicated to the Pursuit of Fitness and Inner Peace | p. 200 |
Blue March'91 | p. 202 |
Note Found on Meditator | p. 203 |
Inhabited Eyes | p. 204 |
In the Raging Balance | p. 205 |
Why There Is a Cat Curfew in Our House | p. 206 |
Blue Ceiling | p. 207 |
Pterodactyls | p. 212 |
Pounces | p. 215 |
Reviewing the Tape | p. 217 |
Canto Arastra | p. 222 |
In the Music Composed by Nutritious Algae | p. 223 |
Kindly Water Other Level | p. 224 |
Beginning and Ending with Lines from Christina Rossetti | p. 225 |
At This Point in L'Histoire | p. 226 |
Fair Poetry Eats Trembling Matter | p. 227 |
Was That Really a Sonnet? | p. 228 |
Now On to Ghazal Gulch | p. 229 |
Gods Walked Animals Talked | p. 230 |
The Word Thing | p. 231 |
Si, Si, E.E. | p. 232 |
As Leaves Sweep Past | p. 233 |
and Time Trots By | p. 234 |
At Evenfall | p. 235 |
Turn Off the News | p. 237 |
O Ponder Bone of Fabled Carp | p. 238 |
And Then There Are These Skaldic Throwbacks ... | p. 239 |
Head Sky Convoy Pattern | p. 240 |
Benign Evening Comedown | p. 241 |
Metaphor Mutaphor | p. 242 |
Hey, Dr. Who, Let's Dial 1965 | p. 243 |
Leaves of Blur | p. 244 |
Script Mist | p. 245 |
An Olive for Satie | p. 246 |
The Opening of the File | p. 247 |
Emptier Planet | p. 248 |
Jungle Finn | p. 249 |
Time Rocking On | p. 250 |
Sur la terrasse | p. 251 |
Temple Noir | p. 252 |
Sails of Murmur | p. 253 |
The Next Fifty Years | p. 254 |
Cat-Gods' Channel | p. 255 |
After the Newscast | p. 256 |
Halo Blade | p. 257 |
Silent Salad | p. 258 |
Secret Cohesive Tactics | p. 259 |
Voice over Past House | p. 260 |
Caught with a Pronoun | p. 261 |
Things to Do with Life | p. 262 |
Vibrant Ions | p. 263 |
The Job | p. 264 |
Wings over Maximus | p. 265 |
Hop through Intersection | p. 266 |
An Or | p. 267 |
Apocrypha Hipponactea | p. 268 |
Il y a | p. 269 |
And What's Your Derivational Profile? | p. 270 |
Rundfunk | p. 271 |
Earful of River Wind | p. 272 |
September Song | p. 273 |
Your Turn | p. 274 |
Red Cats Revisited | p. 275 |
Hang on to Your Spell | p. 278 |
After "Irish" by Paul Celan | p. 279 |
Scripts | p. 280 |
Air | p. 282 |
Sunset Caboose | p. 283 |
Passing Vapors | p. 285 |
Big Furry Buddha in Back Yard | p. 286 |
Lost Original | p. 287 |
Still Here and Here Again Then Here and Still | p. 288 |
Paint the Vacant Millennia | p. 289 |
Much of It Unconscious Work but Work (Said Francis Ponge) | p. 290 |
Hanging with Harpocrates | p. 291 |
Leave It to the Bonobos | p. 292 |
Crystallized Internet | p. 293 |
Sorrow Horse Music | p. 294 |
Old Cat Somber Moon | p. 295 |
Presente or Not | p. 296 |
Philosophique | p. 297 |
So Fix That Broken Axle | p. 298 |
Titled | p. 299 |
The Ghostly Screen in Back of Things | p. 300 |
Just Another Bit of Scenery | p. 301 |
Say Tango | p. 302 |
A Hundred Mule Deer in the Back Yard | p. 303 |
Ad Quodlibet | p. 304 |
We Are Having It Again and Without Sorrow | p. 305 |
Life in the Twists | p. 306 |
From the Notebooks of Professor Doppelganger | p. 307 |
Give Me Big Shoes | p. 308 |
Hi, Haunting | p. 309 |
Skid Inside | p. 310 |
Old Aristippus | p. 311 |
Ultraista Oneiric | p. 312 |
Attention: Sections Come on Tilted | p. 313 |
The World as Fiasco | p. 314 |
Now O'clock | p. 315 |
"Tempus? Fuggit!" | p. 316 |
Johnny Cash Writes a Letter to Santa Claus | p. 317 |
Notes | p. 319 |
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