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Playing the Black Piano

Poems

Bill Holm author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Milkweed Editions

Published:4th Mar '04

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“The finest poems Holm has ever written.” —MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE In this collection of poems, Bill Holm—like a modern-day Walt Whitman bestriding America and the world—comments on the waywardness and promise of the human species. Playing the Black Piano reflects Holm’s time in Iceland (his ancestral home), his ongoing love affair with music, a friend’s death from AIDS, and his bold reactions to the world around him. Moving from Oregon forests to the deserts around Tuscon, from the endless marketing of long-distance telephone service to the experience of undergoing an MRI, these poems speak of Holm’s full embrace of the world and his passion for living well. This is a wise, musical collection from one of Minnesota’s most treasured poets.

  • Commended for Minnesota Book Award (Poetry) 2005

ISBN: 9781571314178

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 212g

144 pages