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    612-822-4611

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Playing the Black Piano

Playing the Black Piano

Holm, Bill

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1571314172
ISBN13: 9781571314178
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Feb 17 2004
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Awards: Minnesota Book Award

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 the world and his passion for living well.

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