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Notes
on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence; Selected
Poems 1965- 2000
by Anselm Hollo
(New
Orleans) — Don't let another week pass without
the work of Anselm Hollo. Every decade is marked by
a brick of a book, on which is inscribed: "All
is not well, but the art keeps on going on. Onward,
whippets!" Over three and a half decades, Anselm
Hollo has advanced both the art of poetry and the pleasure
of intelligence as if they were one and the same thing.
He has been an indispensable philosopher of the word
who has taught us that to play and to know that you
are playing is nearly enough in this (overall) unfair
set up. This collection shares shelf in my house with
Ted Berrigan's So Going Around Cities, Robert
Creeley's Selected, the collecteds of Williams,
Pound, Olson, and Mina Loy. We are strict here at Canon
HQ. Poetry teachers, teach this book! In my quarter
of a century teaching I found few poets more inspiring
to the young and better equipped to put them in the
know than Master Hollo. An event! A magnificent book!
—Andrei Codrescu
Titles by Andrei Codrescu:
Comrade
Past & Mister Present
Emily
Carter wins Whiting Writers' Award
Minneapolis Star Tribune / Oct 28 2001
Carter
'Goes and Gets Some'
Minneapolis
author Emily Carter joined some heady company on Friday
when she won a Whiting Writers' Award. Targeted at emerging
talents across the United States, the $35,000 award
has become a literary bellwether since it was established
in 1985. Previous recipients include Jonathan Franzen,
Mona Simpson, David Foster Wallace, Mary Karr, Stanley
Crouch and others who have gone on to literary fame.
"I'm
honored to be in their company," Carter said. "It's
a flattering psychological boost."
Carter,
40, plans to use the money to "buy time and peace
of mind" as she proceeds with her second book,
a novel.
Her
debut story collection, "Glory Goes and Gets Some,"
published by Coffee House Press of Minneapolis, garnered
rave reviews in 2000, and just appeared in a paperback
edition from Picador. It gathers work that had appeared
previously in the New Yorker, "The Best American
Short Stories 1997" and a host of small literary
magazines. - Chris Waddington
Coffee
House Press poet Marjorie Welish finalist for the 2001
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Marjorie
Welish's book, The Annotated "Here" and Selected
Poems, published by Coffee House Press (Spring 2000),
has been selected as a finalist for the 2001 Lenore
Marshall Poetry Prize by the Academy of American Poets
and The Nation. The winner will receive a $10,000 award
for the "most outstanding book of poems published
in the United States in 2000." The winner will
be announced in November, and an essay by poet Ann Lauterbach
on the prize winning collection will appear in The Nation,
along with a selection of the poems from the book.
The
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize was established in 1975
in memory of poet, novelist, essayist, and political
activist Lenore Marshall. Previous winners of the Lenore
Marshall Poetry Prize include John Ashbery, Marilyn
Hacker, Denise Levertov, W. S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich,
Robert Pinsky, and others. The other nominees for the
2001 prize are John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Fanny
Howe, Ed Robertson, and David Trinidad.
"Wrenching,
obdurate music. There may be no known correspondences
for Marjorie Welish's mind. The poems neither describe
nor situate but compose and construct. The procedures
are odd but the materials quite embodied...She's a little
bit scary."—C. D. Wright
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