On an Island Named for Ice, the Poets Are Just Getting Warmed Up

This reminded me of one of Björk's interview responses from nearly two decades ago [1]:

"Yeah, we hold the world record for the population with the highest literacy rate. No art, no painting, no dance, no history of anything but literature. Viking sagas. If teenagers in Iceland are young and angry they don't form punk bands, they write poetry. And then they get drunk and shout it at each other. Not because they're so intelligent, as English people seem to imagine you must be if you're connected with books, it's just a cultural thing."

[1] http://14142.net/bjork/articles/bjork/arena1995.txt

"On an Island Named for Ice" -- seriously? I guess artistic license is artistic license, but come on. If you're going to change your other headlines so frequently (https://twitter.com/nyt_diff) why not change this one for the better?