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Bill Holm

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born

August 25, 1943 in Minneota, Minnesota, The United States

died

February 25, 2009

website

http://www.billholm.com/

genre

Poetry, Philosophy, Travel

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Bill Holm was an American poet, essayist, memoirist, and musician.

Holm was born on a farm north of Minneota, Minnesota, the grandson of Icelandic immigrants. He attended Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota where he graduated in 1965. Later, he attended the University of Kansas.

Holm won a Fulbright and went to Iceland for a year, which stretched into longer. He continued to visit Iceland so regularly that his friends there helped him find a house in Hofsós. His last book, "The Windows of Brimnes," is about his time in Iceland.

He was Professor Emeritus of English at Southwest Minnesota State University, where he taught classes on poetry and literature until his retirement in 2007. Though Minneota was his home, Holm had travel...more

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Books by Bill Holm

Average rating: 4.04 · 472 ratings · 83 reviews · 54 distinct works

	Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays by Bill Holm, Harrison E. Salisbury (Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland 3.59 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth 4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Eccentric Islands: Travels Real and Imaginary 4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Boxelder Bug Variations: A Meditation on an Idea in Language and Music 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	Playing the Black Piano: Poems 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form (Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Monograph) 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1965	My rating:
	Music of Failure 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Dead Get by with Everything: Poems 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	The Chain Letter of the Soul: New and Selected Poems 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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Quotes by Bill Holm

“Above me, wind does its best
to blow leaves off
the aspen tree a month too soon.
No use wind. All you succeed
in doing is making music, the noise
of failure growing beautiful.”
― Bill Holm

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“We're keeping our ears alert for any sudden thumps in undusted corners.”
― Bill Holm

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“You must sit down to speak this language,
It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it.
For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"
-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss”
― Bill Holm

tags: icelandic , language