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Playing the Black Piano
Bill Holm
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Paperback. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
“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 ... Read more
“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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571314178
SKU
V9781571314178
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Ref
99-15
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