In Hollo's work, we see examples of black
humour in "manifest destiny"…"watching the
latest military techne….wipe out poverty
everywhere in the world…in its most obvious
form, the poor". Here Hollo finds a popular
audience with his prescience for making a point.
In "Bouzouki Music", Hollo takes on a
mythological or classical subject matter,
introducing us to the figure of Odysseus (In the
Romantic conception, the original shaman). He
bids us on a "journey" or quest such as his "a
man's legs grow…straight out of his soul…who
knows where they take him". He does this again in
"Old space cadet speaking" when we depart the
protagonist "we leave him to go on hurtling
through the great warp and at our own ineffable
goals". In "on the occasion of becoming an echo
“Hollo evokes the guardian spirit Gaia in another
modern or contemporary media created
mythology in which he is a shamanic voice
(Reisman, 2012).
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