{"product_id":"waitress-in-fall-9781913196042","title":"Waitress in Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor over three decades  Kristn marsdttirs poetry 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 is a wide-reaching introduction to a vital voice of contemporary European poetry.  Kristns 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  mothers  knives  nightstands  sweat and crockery. If the domestic is at the heart of the work  it is a domesticity tinged with threat. Something clear and ominous is taking shape between the lines. Images of placid mid-century housewifery confront a wildness pulsing below the surface  a womanhood at once natural and supernatural  of evening dresses woven from twigs  necklaces strung with worms  and socks knitted from saliva.  These are surreal  unsettling landscapes  in which children lap milk from trees and car tires are soft as skin. But Kristns 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  to wound the language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45116138750005,"sku":"ByrdShop_1913196046","price":450.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781913196042.jpg?v=1776025497","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/waitress-in-fall-9781913196042","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}