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Waitress in Fall
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- Book Synopsis
- For over three decades, the work of Kristín Ómarsdóttir has thrived in the vanguard of Icelandic literature. Waitress in Fall offers anglophone readers the first substantial selection of her poems in translation. Spanning thirty years and seven collections - from her first to her latest - this wide-reaching introduction celebrates a vital voice in contemporary European poetry.Kristín Ómarsdóttir's work resists the sweet, the neat or the certain. Her poems delight in the lush mess of actual life, in its hands and fingers, lemons and clocks, socks, soldiers, snow, knives, mothers, nightstands, sweat, and crockery. The domestic is at the heart of the poems, but it is a domesticity tinged with threat: something 'clear and ominous' persists between the lines.These are surreal, unsettling landscapes, in which children lap milk from trees and car tyres are 'soft as skin'. But Kristín's poems are also full of laughter, sex, and love. They accept vulnerability as a condition of intimacy. Erupting 'wherever thirst is ignited', they are not afraid to strike, to rage, recognising a right - a responsibility - to risk the necessary word, even to 'wound the language'.
- About The Author
- Kristìn Ómarsdóttir is one of Iceland's most esteemed contemporary authors. She is the author of six novels, seven books of poetry, three books of short stories, and half a dozen plays. Her novels have been translated into many languages including Swedish, French, and English. She has won numerous awards including the DV Cultural Award for Literature, the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, and the Icelandic national prize for playwright of the year. Kristìn has also been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Award as well as twice to The Nordic Council Literary Prize. The first book of translations of her poems into English, Waitress in Fall, was co-published by Partus and Carcanet in 2018 and was chosen as one of the best poetry books of the year by The Sunday Times and The White Review.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781913196042
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Partus Press, (20 February 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 125
- Weight
- 58 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 217 x 16 mm
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