Playing the Black Piano: Poems
"Holm celebrates the free market of music, from Schubert...to musical beggars...in China." --Minnesota Monthly, March 2004"Holm...fills his work with wonderful music..." --Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23 2004"It appears Bill Holm is keeping the angel of death away." --Suburban Chicago Newspapers,"Likely to produce a slight smile, perhaps a tear, and . . . a nod of understanding for its insightful perception of life." --Tulsa World (May 1, 2005)"This is Bill Holm's most compassionate work." --The Corresponder, Fall 2004Holm takes adult readers to Iceland and deeper into the cyclical and astonishing nature of our lives. --Lisle Sun, April 16, 2004In these poems, Holm is playing the black piano...with a power and an eloquence that is breathtaking. --Star Tribune, March 14, 2004