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A legendary storyteller and writer who has charmed New York audiences for decades, Holst first evolved his oeuvre in the 1950s-60s milieu of Greenwich Village, influenced as much by sophisticated poets/writers (e.g. Hart Crane, Jorge Luis Borges) as by fairy tales/tall-tales which his writings superficially resemble. He is an “artificer” in the classic sense of the term, for in none of his stories is he limited by what most people understand to be “reality” or “common sense”—both of which are either merely real or much too common for his own rarefied taste. Brilliant Silence is a series of miniature fictions, each complete as a gesture of essential narrative and poetic vision. These minimal acts of language create a new genre that offers mind-altering fiction in a space no larger than a joke. Holst is the author of The Zebra Storyteller (Station Hill Press). He is also a painter.
| Cover | Price | Pages | Dimensions | ISBN |
| $15.95 | 176 | 6x9 | 978-1-58177-055-1 |