Anselm Hollo, ubiquitous, versatile cross pollinator of literature to and from the English-speaking world, describes himself as "post-war poet shot forward in time by friends." His friendships in Britain and America have spanned several generations of writers. His contribution is a rare wit, rigorous clarity of music and vision, and moral judgment quite free of unctuous religiosity. His work express a strong fellow feeling with poets of distant times and places, with the oppressed, and with the myriad forms of living, feeling beings: the animal kingdom, especially the mammals, and even plants, whose sensitivity, like the poet's, is made manifest tropically. Hollo's tropes tend likewise toward the light, though dark zones lurk and, in places, do engulf the writing. Primarily, though, his work traces the emergence of consciousness from sleep, dream, or doubt, into clarity and presence of mind, humor, and affirmation of change, which is the universe...