Penned by the inimitable Sjón, a novelist, poet, and lyricist hailed by Junot Diaz as "the trickster who makes the world," UNDER THE WINGS OF THE VALKYRIE is an exploration of eroticism in extremism. Published in Icelandic in 1994, this short and intense story, Sjón writes, is "more transgressive than anything ever published by me in the English language."