Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence

* A major figure in the Naropa, New York School, Language School circles. * Author’s statement: Poems age, just as people do.This selection consists of work written when I was in my early thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties, work that has retained resonance for me through all that time and up to this year 2000. * Praise for Hollo: * Thank god for his humor, else we’d all be dead. -Robert Creeley * His work is “news that stays news.‘ -Andrei Codrescu * For three decades Anselm Hollo has been an important figure on the intercultural poetry scene. -James Laughlin * Compare to Hollo’s collected essays, Caws and Causeries. *Corvus (Coffee House) (Sales 1000) 156689039X