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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-251-8
Pages: 272
Publish Date: Dec, 2001
Genre: Nonfiction
The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth
BY Bill Holm
The author of Eccentric Islands and Coming Home Crazy sends us a postcard from home, investigating—through the lens of small-town life—what community means to us and the rigid definitions we give to”success" and”failure."
Growing up, Bill Holm could define failure easily; it was”to die in Minneota." But when he returned to his hometown ("a very small dot on the ghost of an ocean of grass") twenty years later, he began to uncover its lost histories and to discover more of himself and of our time. By stepping out of the mainstream into what others regard as a backwater, Holm began to question the pace of our culture and how, in the rush to get ahead, we’ve lost our roots.
Whether tracking the forbidden Icelandic recipes of Holm’s parents or spilling the beans on the scandalous affair of Hester and Art, The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth celebrates the connections between us.
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The Chain Letter of the Soul
Collecting the best and the newest poems from Bill Holm's oeuvre, The Chain Letter of the Soul paints a portrait of a man of great heart, broad vision, and startling prescience.
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The Windows of Brimnes
Bill Holm observes the U.S. from Iceland with a sardonic twinkle in his eye
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The Windows of Brimnes
In the tradition of Walt Whitman and Henry Thoreau, a singular perspective that is at once incisive and amusing, provocative, and congenial.
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Eccentric Islands
Eccentric Islands is a literary expedition across the map to islands both real and imaginary.
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Eccentric Islands
Eccentric Islands is a literary expedition across the map to islands both real and imaginary.
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Coming Home Crazy
A book about what happened to an American in China, his adventures of daily life and on the road, and what America looked like after he got home. This edition includes a new afterword by the author ab
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Playing the Black Piano
Like a modern-day Walt Whitman bestriding America and the world, Holm comments on the waywardness and promise of the human species.
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"The tallest radical humorist in the Midwest and a truthful and graceful writer.”
—Garrison Keillor"Bill Holm’s is a classic American voice, but of a kind we haven’t often heard lately. It’s the voice of the prairie radical, the village agnostic, toting volumes of Walt Whitman. . . as he saunters through Minneota, Minnesota.”
—Los Angeles Times
