Essays.Poetics. Anselm Hollo, long-time teacher at the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics at Naropa, translator from an astounding number of languages, and general polyglot of poetry, here offers a collection of fugitive prose works (according to Anselm Berrigan). Delving into Anselm Hollo's notebook is like eating forbidden fruit . . . Part common reader, part essayist on poetry, talk, and lectures, here is the sparkling wit, the erudition, the tonic take-no-prisoners realism, the wisdom of a great poet -- Andrei Codrescu.