from today's New Yorker "Book Bench"
Iceland has been in the news a lot recently. When I heard that the poet Anne Carson was living there as an artist in residence, working on a choral piece in Stykkisholmur, I asked her what her impressions were of the headline-making nation:
Vast empty silent. Kinds of light unlike any other. Weather changing every ten minutes.
The choral piece, based on a sequence of Carson’s sonnets, will be scored by Kjartan, from Sigur Rós, and moved to New York next year.
(Exclamation marks, anticipation and punctuation marks of desire all around)
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