From Head to Toe: The Making of a Poet (2025)
2025
211 pages
Fiction
This new novel unfolds in the same imaginative world as Einar Mar Gudmundsson’s award-winning classic Angels of the Universe (1993) and his coming-of-age novel Passport Pictures (2017).
Reviews
⭐⭐⭐⭐ (four stars out of five) "Einar Mar Gudmundsson has proven himself to be a powerful storyteller... The story is full of depth of feeling and is delightfully colored by nostalgia."
FL, MORGUNBLADID DAILY
"From Head to Toe is a time machine that takes the reader on the lyric express, on an artistic journey, back to the future music of the 80s, to youth, to possibilities, to poetic ideals, and political movements. With the special warm humor that characterizes Einar Mar Gudmundsson, the story tells of being an Icelander in Denmark, of apprenticing with the navy's cleaning women, and of the literature scene that defined the decade"
SUNE DE SOUZA SCHMIDT-MADSEN, LITERARY DIRECTOR LINDHARD&RINGHOF
"The book is blazingly brilliant... But first and foremost, this is a book with something to chew on. These are reflections on the form of the novel, on its development over the last 60 years, and the author's views on aesthetics in both poetry and novels."
KBJ, CRITIC
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