Danish author, musician, painter, and sculptor Rolf Gjedsted (1947-2022) wrote fifty-five works of poetry, fiction, translation, and non-fiction. Although a cohort of the great Danish writers of his time, such as Michael Strunge and Inger Christensen, Gjedsted never achieved much notoriety as a writer during his life. Still his poetry reveals his facility with musicality and the transformative power of language. A trainer of Icelandic horses, as well as a black belt and karate instructor, Gjedsted was fearless in penetrating the substance of the written word. He owned and lived part-time in the stone cabin in Spain where Federico García Lorca lived before he was killed, and Gjedsted wrote many of his poems there.