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About Holy Cow!
Press
We are pleased and proud to welcome you to our
website! Herein you will find a catalogue of books
we have published since our founding in 1977,
information about our 25th anniversary celebration,
guidelines for writers and ordering information.
Holy Cow! Press was founded in 1977 by editor/publisher
Jim Perlman in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our first
publication was a chapbook of poems by Thomas
McGrath to his son entitled LETTERS TO TOMASITO.
In the ensuing 25 years, we have published over
70 titles and have moved the press operations
to Iowa and Wisconsin, before returning to Minnesota
(Duluth) in 1988. Our primary goal has been to
publish the very best collections of Midwest writings
we can find and develop an audience for those
books regionally and nationally. We have published
books of poetry, short fiction, memoirs, novels,
plays, children's and young adult titles, biographies
and anthologies centered around important themes.
Among the better-known regional authors we have
published are Brenda Ueland, Meridel Le Sueur,
Frederick Manfred, Ruth F. Brin, Roberta J. Hill,
Louis Jenkins, Diane Glancy and Ray A. Young Bear.
We have published the first full-length books
of a number of authors including Natalie Goldberg,
Kate Green, Dianna Hunter, Kirsten Dierking, Earl
Fleck, Philip Red Eagle, and Todd Fuller. We have
published several important anthologies including
BROTHER SONGS: A Male Anthology of Poetry (1979),
WALT WHITMAN: The Measure of His Song (1981; rev.
ed. 1998) and RINGING IN THE WILDERNESS: Selections
from the North Country Anvil (1997). And we are
one of few presses that publishes work by Indian
writers on a regular basis, having made available
work by Joseph Bruchac, Duane Niatum, Anne M.
Dunn, and others.
Our books have been favorably reviewed in many
of this country's most noteworthy journals, newspapers,
and magazines. We have also received grant support
for our press over the years from the National
Endowment for the Arts, The Jerome Foundation,
The Minneapolis and Saint Paul Charitable Foundations,
the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, the Saint
Paul Companies as well as donations from many
generous individuals.
An independent publishing company such as ours
could not have survived these years without the
kindness and generosity of many people. We heartily
acknowledge the daily support of Deborah Petersen-Perlman
as well as that of Marian Lansky, whose Clarity
Design has helped us produce our books. Of course,
we also thank the many fine writers and artists
whose work has been made available for publication
and distribution by our press. We hope that our
shared working relationships with them reveal
only the best qualities of their work as well
as they do about the American Midwestern region
from which most of these titles were produced.
Thank you, one and all, for your support and may
the next 25 years be as challenging and worthwhile
as that first year when someone had a dream of
naming a publishing company Holy Cow! Press.
--Jim Perlman, Editor & Publisher
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Jim Perlman
was born and raised in Minneapolis and
has lived with his family in Duluth since
1988. He earned a BA in Creative Writing/Literature
from the University of Arizona and an
MA in English from the University of Iowa.
He helped start and edit a number of little
magazines and journals including Moons
& Lion Tailes, ONE, Window Rock, and
the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. He
has edited two books (BROTHER SONGS: A
Male Anthology of Poetry, 1979; and, with
Ed Folsom and Dan Campion, WALT WHITMAN:
The Measure of His Song, 1981, rev. ed.,
1998). He is a founding board member of
the Spirit Lake
Poetry Series in Duluth (1996-present)
and, since 2000, has served on the board
of Lake Superior Writers, a nonprofit
organization for writers.
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