The ground bass is failure; America is the key signature; Pauline Bardal is the lyrical tune that sings at the center; Minneota, Minnesota, is the staff on which the tunes are written. So begins the masterful title piece from Bill Holms first book of essays, The Music of Failure. This collection introduced to many the singular vision and voice of literary giant Bill Holm, a writer who had traveled well and widely but came back to his hometown of Minneotathe town of his immigrant Icelandic ancestorsas, in his words, for all practical purposes a failure.
The ground bass is failure; America is the key signature; Pauline Bardal is the lyrical tune that sings at the center; Minneota, Minnesota, is the staff on which the tunes are written. So begins the masterful title piece from Bill Holms first book of essays, The Music of Failure. This collection introduced to many the singular vision and voice of literary giant Bill Holm, a writer who had traveled well and widely but came back to his hometown of Minneotathe town of his immigrant Icelandic ancestorsas, in his words, for all practical purposes a failure.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Bill Holm (1943–2009) was a one-of-a-kind poet, essayist, and musician. He wrote several acclaimed books and won the Minnesota Book Award and the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award. He lived in Minneota, Minnesota, and spent summers in Iceland, and he taught English for many years at Southwest Minnesota State University. Jim Heynen has published widely as a writer of poems, novels, nonfiction, and short fiction. David Pichaske is editor in chief of Spoon River Poetry Press, Ellis Press, and Plains Press.
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Foreword Jim Heynen The Grand Tour Horizontal Grandeur On Tour in Western Minnesota The Poetry-Out-Loud Troupe Reads in Four Nursing Homes An Icelandic Woman Visits Minneota The Mountains in Lincoln County What the Prairie Eye Looks for in a Mountain: Chief Mountain MontanaIcelanders Boxelders Soybeans and Poets Bill Holm Sr. Fred Manfred in Roundwind: Luverne Minnesota Ronald Catholics The Old Round-Up Saloon Sunday Morning Singing Latin in New Ulm The Music of Failure: Variations on an Idea Cold Snap Spring Comes A Little Talk for the School Teachers of Appleton Minnesota Lucky Stone At the Grave of William J. Holm: Bay View Cemetery Bellingham WashingtonIs Minnesota in America Yet? Afterword: A Left Bank Can Be Found Anywhere on Earth David Pichaske
Foreword Jim Heynen The Grand Tour Horizontal Grandeur On Tour in Western Minnesota The Poetry-Out-Loud Troupe Reads in Four Nursing Homes An Icelandic Woman Visits Minneota The Mountains in Lincoln County What the Prairie Eye Looks for in a Mountain: Chief Mountain MontanaIcelanders Boxelders Soybeans and Poets Bill Holm Sr. Fred Manfred in Roundwind: Luverne Minnesota Ronald Catholics The Old Round-Up Saloon Sunday Morning Singing Latin in New Ulm The Music of Failure: Variations on an Idea Cold Snap Spring Comes A Little Talk for the School Teachers of Appleton Minnesota Lucky Stone At the Grave of William J. Holm: Bay View Cemetery Bellingham WashingtonIs Minnesota in America Yet? Afterword: A Left Bank Can Be Found Anywhere on Earth David Pichaske
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