Windows of Brimnes

Author's Bio:

Bill Holm was born in 1943 on a farm north of Minneota, Minnesota. He continues to live in Minnesota half the year while he teaches at Southwest State University in Marshall. He spends summers at his little house on a North Iceland fjord where he writes, practices the piano, and waits for the first dark after three months of daylight. He is the author of eleven books, both poetry and essays. His most recent poetry book is Playing the Black Piano.

Quotes:

“One can't help but like Iceland and its inhabitants as Holm hews them on the page. . . . The author himself remains the most captivating phenomenon in view.” Star Tribune

“Holm, who looks like a cross between Robertson Davies and Father Christmas, is as forceful, insightful, and lyrical as ever in The Windows of Brimnes. A reader sinks almost immediately into the hands of a master storyteller, a true rambler.” Los Angeles Times

“Holm writes prose that seems to have honed the font: Words on the page actually seem more sharply etched. The clarity is bracing, shocking, a jolt of literary frisson.” San Diego Union Tribune

“A good, old-fashioned read you'll find yourself quoting to friends.” Jonis Agee, author of The River Wife