Playing the Black Piano

The finest poems Holm has ever written. MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE In this collection of poems, Bill Holmlike a modern-day Walt Whitman bestriding America and the worldcomments on the waywardness and promise of the human species. Playing the Black Piano reflects Holms time in Iceland (his ancestral home), his ongoing love affair with music, a friends 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 Holms full embrace of the world and his passion for living well. This is a wise, musical collection from one of Minnesotas most treasured poets.