Eccentric Islands

Author's Bio:

Though born in the middle of the North American continent, Bill Holm (his last name means "island" in Old Norse) is a devotee of islands as well as an essayist, musician, and poet. His books include Coming Home Crazy, The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth, The Dead Get By With Everything, and Box-Elder Bug Variations. When he is not island hopping, he lives in Minneota, Minnesota and teaches at Southwest State University.

Quotes:

"Peopled with Icelandic poet-farmers and one-handed Malagasy musicians, these joyful essays praise the unquenchable human spirit and suggest that isolation on islands may be positively beatific."—Chris Dodge, Utne Reader

"Expansive and imaginatively written, Eccentric Islands is a joyfully unordinary book, its spirit irresistible. . .. Holm shows how our imaginations are linked to geography in a dozen different ways."—David Walton, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Of all the landscapes in Eccentric Islands, the most multitudinous may be those of the interior—what Holm calls islands of imagination, of ideas. It is here that he evokes the true complexity of island thinking, from the joyous revelation of thought to the brutal isolation of despair."—David Ulin, Ruminator Review