DEENA YELLIN The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-03-1998 HENRY HOLLAND -- "THERE IS A SAYING, 'ONCE AN ISRAELI, ALWAYS AN ISRAELI.'" < By DEENA YELLIN Date: 05-03-1998, Sunday Section: SPECIAL SECTION / LIFESTYLE Edition: All Editions -- Sunday My family were Zionists...

Despite the Asian economic crisis, John Holland Asia says it is hopeful of gaining more major projects in the region, particularly from Thailand's major track rehabilitation project. John Holland has already been awarded two phases of the State Railways of Thailand project,...

[Cleverness] is not a vice, indeed I regard it as something of a virtue, and in John Hollander's poems it is the clearest sign of his extraordinary gift. Spectral Emanations, a book of "new and selected poems" which, read consecutively, takes us backward through Hollander's whole career, offers an abundance of examples. In a well-known early work, "Aristotle to Phyllis," Hollander translates the sounds (and some sense) of a Mallarmé poem into English, thus: &...

Hollander has written his Reflections on Espionage in the form of a single long poem composed in strict eleven-syllable lines, except for twenty-one lines at the very end which contain a clever cipher carefully explicated in the author's notes. Hendecasyllabic verse, then, is the "eleven-phase transposition grid" used by the secret agent Cupcake for transmitting in cipher his messages to other agents and ultimately to his director, named Lyrebird. All this of course is derived from the ...

"Spectral Emanations," the extraordinarily brilliant and ambitious work in poetry and prose which leads off [the collection by the same title], is prompted in part by a passage, quoted in the volume's epigraph, in which Hilda of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun talks about the menorah, the golden lamp of seven branches…. Hilda proposes a parable in which the lamp will be recovered and its seven branches kindled, each with a different color, until the world is illumined by �...