Translated from the Icelandic by Vala Thorodds.

In Forevernoon—a book of bright, bare language but epic scope—Ásta addresses the vulnerability of the body in its spiritual entanglement with the outside world. There is a lightness and freedom in these poems whose lines leap around the page in search of connections, reminding us of things we’d forgotten to remember: that ‘the mind is a net in the ocean’, that ‘moonlight is milk for nightcats’.

‘If the Icelandic poetry scene were a deck of cards, Ásta would be the ace of spades. Forevernoon is an instant classic of the Icelandic avant-garde.’
– Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl