A Minnesotan and a Icelander.
A poet. An essayist. 2008’s McKnight Distinguished Artist of the Year.
Author of one of my favorite travel/experience books EVER!!!: Coming Home Crazy.
And Barton Sutter sums him up poetically: “Tis also a gift to be complex and ornery / with a house full of music / cigar smoke and whiskey / and Icelandic sagas / preserved by farmers / for nearly a thousand years.”