{"product_id":"hin-hvitu-skip-53351-48111","title":"The White Ships #53351","description":"The White Ships. Poem by Guðmundur Böðvarsson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the 12th year of Einreiðinn, issue 22, Guðmundur Böðvarsson's The White Ships is discussed. It says: The publishing house \"Heimskringla\" has recently published a new book of poetry \u003cbr\u003eby farmer Guðmundur Böðvarsson\u003cbr\u003e at Kirkjuból on Hvitársíð, which is called\u003cbr\u003e The White Ships. The magazine Eimreiðin introduced him to Icelandic readers.\u003cbr\u003e a few years ago, with poems\u003cbr\u003e which attracted considerable attention, but few\u003cbr\u003e they knew who the man was. For\u003cbr\u003e almost three years ago he published\u003cbr\u003e the poetry book Kissed Me Sun. She got\u003cbr\u003e warm reception and many people thought they saw\u003cbr\u003e that there was a promising poet there\u003cbr\u003e the journey. It is safe to say,\u003cbr\u003e that with the new book Guðmundur fulfills those hopes — and better still\u003cbr\u003e — as people made of him\u003cbr\u003e after reading the previous book.\u003cbr\u003e This is a major improvement.\u003cbr\u003e Guðmundur not only always composes\u003cbr\u003e well but usually almost perfectly. The other\u003cbr\u003e White ships bring some excellent poems, which are among the best.\u003cbr\u003e the best that has ever happened in Iceland\u003cbr\u003e in recent years. There is no room here\u003cbr\u003e to trace this further, but still\u003cbr\u003e mention poems such as Við hverfisteininn 1936, Fjarða-Björn, Eyrar-rós etc. — It is an honor to Icelandic \u003cbr\u003epeasant woman that she should still give birth\u003cbr\u003e up men like Guðmundur Böðvarsson. As a poet he shows little, is whole and pure, vigorous with his passages, but yet it is as if a string of longing vibrates in his harp.\u003cbr\u003e He composes from an inner need, has been gifted with the gift of singing since birth, and has\u003cbr\u003e better not bury it in the ground\u003cbr\u003e goes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With this new book, Guðmundur has taken his place at the forefront\u003cbr\u003e class among Icelandic poets.","brand":"Bókin.is","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51123928990024,"sku":"OSC-48111","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4029\/9848\/files\/53351.jpg?v=1754770508","url":"https:\/\/www.bokin.is\/en\/products\/hin-hvitu-skip-53351-48111","provider":"bokin.is","version":"1.0","type":"link"}