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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9781571313027 ISBN: 1571313028 Label: Milkweed Editions Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: October 01, 2007 Publisher: Milkweed Editions Studio: Milkweed Editions Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In his most ambitious book to date, poet, musician, wit, and polemicist Bill Holm repairs to his Icelandic cottage to reflect on the United States and what it might learn from the land of his ancestral roots. The book begins with a description of the extraordinary setting of Brimnes, a small fishing village on the Arctic Circle. From his house, Holm captures Iceland’s warmth and genuine community, its secularism, pacifism, and love of nature, poetry, and music. Writing of the America to which his ancestors fled only two generations before, he wonders whether the compelling dream of liberty, freedom, and inquiry still animates his native country. For the legions of Bill Holm fans as well as for those yearning for some straight if often comical reflection on the state of America today, this book provides a memorable experience. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A sense of place!Bill Holm takes his readers with him as he settles down along the northern coast of Iceland in a cottage close to where his ancestors had lived before emigrating in the 19th century. For those new to Holm's writing, the book will reveal his sharp eye for detail, the breadth of his research, and his great heart as he shares a sense of going home to the land of his forebears. He is a brilliant essayist. Rating:  - author quite unlikable Books like this are often excellent armchair co-pilots as they transport us to a place of interest. It's almost a given that the writer will be someone we would like to have as a travel companion - to share their stories first hand, to raise a glass with, etc. This author is anything but. I am fascinated by Iceland - it is a wonderful country. It was with eager anticipation that I started this book anxious to hear a different tale - that of an American in Iceland. After all, we ... Read More Rating: - magical windowsSome years back, Bill Holm, a writer and poet of Icelandic descent, decided to visit the island his ancestors had left behind when they immigrated to Minnesota. He not only found himself happy to be there, but has since become one of Iceland's part-time residents, having bought a small house named Brimnes in a village, Hofsos, along one of the country's northern fjords. Mainly he and his wife are there for the summer but sometimes they manage winter visits as well, when Iceland's "spareness is magnified ... Read More 
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