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.
Bill Holm
Author's Bio:Bill
Holm was born to Icelandic immigrants on a farm north of Minneota,
Minnesota in 1943. A long-time resident of Minneota, Holm lived with
his wife Marcie and taught at Southwest Minnesota State University in
Marshall from 1980 until he retired in 2007. He traveled widely, to
Iceland on a Fulbright in 1979, and more recently to his summer home in
Hofsos; and to China, where he taught on an academic exchange program
in 1986 and again in 1992. The recipient of the 2008 McKnight
Distinguished Artist Award, Holm is the author of several books of
essays and poetry including, most recently, The Windows of Brimnes. Known both regionally and nationally as a humorist, writer, and prairie radical, Bill Holm passed away on February 26, 2009.
Quotes:"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 |
Price:
$ 16.00
Binding: Paper
Availability In Stock: 299
immediately
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2001
Size: 5.5”x8.5”
Genre: Nonfiction/Nonfiction/Nonfiction
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781571312518
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