The tortoise of history

By Anselm Hollo

Subjects: American poetry, POETRY / Continental European, POETRY / American / General, Poetry (poetic works by one author)

Description: "From "Art History":Someone comes along gives that tedious old thing a new twist or breaks its neckthe old questions don't change:what do you want me to say? what do you want me to do?Anselm Hollo (1934-2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo eventually settled in the United States in 1966, where he taught at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado"--