For over three decades, Kristín Ómarsdóttir's poetry has thrived in the vanguard of Icelandic literature. Waitress in Fall offers anglophone readers the first substantial introduction to her poems, selected and translated by Vala Thorodds.
Kristín's work delights in the lush mess of actual life – its hands and fingers, socks, sweat and crockery. At the heart of the work is a domesticity tinged with threat, where images of placid housewifery confront a wildness pulsing below the surface, a womanhood at once natural and supernatural.