so the ants made it to the cat food by Anselm Hollo (2001)

 so the ants made it to the cat food

Anselm Hollo

Samizdat Editions

Lake Forest, IL

(c) 2001

I admit that I came late to the awareness of what Samizdat meant during the Soviet half century of iron fisted rule over Eastern Europe and Russia (wondering if a similar discreet publishing effort is underway now with the Putin Soviet hard-on happening there now)

Husband/wife team in Lake Forest. IL did a series of chapbooks at the beginning of the century. This is the first I am writing about since it's by the "official" anti-laureate, Anselm Hollo. So US anti-establishment poet recognized by a US tiny press with a name that has murky 1960s-1980s Soviet underground connections comes to my attention via a repurposing gift from someone in Iowa. 

And this isn't the only press globally using this name, Samizdat Editions, by the way. 

I not only enjoy the poetry in this small collection but the footnotes are also worth reading as well.