Dancing Nowhere

“I’ve followed John Holt’s fishing excursions, travels along wilderness roads, his recounting of the chilling history of Montana and other environs. But this book shows another side – no, not another side – another way of expressing the stark beauty of those remote lands that he loves. These are poems you can wrap your arms around.”
- Nick Teranzi, Online Critics Corner

Many readers follow John Holt’s writing about the beauty and dangers and enjoyment of his life in the northwest … but fewer know the poetic side of this popular outdoors writer. Here he speaks with verse, extolling the wonders of the world around him. After declaring himself plain crazy, he rhapsodizes about the high country, lonely places, being streamside, medicine rocks, chilly creeks, and big fish. He extols being a kid in Montana, life at 3 a.m., Yellowstone, small towns, long gone friends, and truth. He even shares a few fish tales. This is poetry for those who look at nature and the world around us with wonder … and reality.

John Holt is the author of 28 published books including Road Fish, Hunted in Paradise, Plain Crazy in Paradise, Blown Away Under the Big Sky, The Lost Patrol, Yellowstone Drift – Floating the Past in Real Time, Arctic Aurora – Canada’s Yukon and Northwest Territories, and Coyote Nowhere – In Search of America’s Last Frontier. His work has appeared in such publications as Men’s Journal, Fly Rod & Reel, The Denver Post, American Cowboy, Audubon, Jeep Magazine, Big Sky Journal, E – The Environmental Magazine, Art of Angling Journal, and Outside. He and his wife, photographer Ginny Holt, live in Livingston, Montana.