Summary: Garrison Keillor described Bill Holm as "The tallest radical humorist in the Midwest and a truthful and graceful writer. The award-winning author of nine books (both poetry and essays), Holm lives in Minnesota half the year teaching at Southwest State University and spends his summers in Iceland on the Arctic Circle. Poet, musician, and polemicist Bill Holm brings us his most ambitious book to date, in Windows of Brimnes, a long essay that reflects on the state of America today as seen from the window of his home in the small fishing town of Brimnes, Iceland. Holm contrasts Iceland’s warmth, community, secularism, pacifism, and love of nature and poetry with America’s seemingly permanent state of war, fundamentalism, and pervasive violence. Bill Holm delivers a straightforward and often comical reflection on the state of our country today.
