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The work is composed in free verse. Apart from the first ('Formáli: kreppusonnettan', or, in the author's translation, 'Prologue: The Crisis Sonnet') all poems are entitled only 'X.' In the top right-hand corner of each page, the value of the Króna to the Euro is listed, falling from 81.98 on the
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Bjarnar, 'Eiríkur Örn certainly earns his writer's stipend; he tears up the workings of poetry while he monitors the value of the króna fall to nothing. A really amusing volume.'
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of parts of the collection as a contribution to the Litla ljóðahátíðin 2009.
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http://www.visir.is/ei-rikur-eirikur-ljodsins/article/2013710049887/
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Versopolis: European review of Poetry, Books and
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IWF! IWF! OMG! OMG!, Kozempel & Timm, 2011 (in German)
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