In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has now attained a prominence comparable to that of Pablo Neruda's during his lifetime. But if Neruda is blazing fire, Transtromer is expanding ice.The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems gathers all the poems Tomas Transtromer has published, from his distinctive first collection in 1954, 17 Poems, through his epic poem...
In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of To...
Tomas Transtromer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private citizen in the second half of the twentieth century.
Tomas Transtromer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and bri...
Das schmale lyrische Gesamtwerk von Tomas Tranströmer hat auch außerhalb Schwedens großen Einfluß ausgeübt; besonders aber in Deutschland. In seinen Gedichten kommt eine innere, erträumte Welt hinter der Wirklichkeit zur Sprache, die in ihrer exakten Schönheit ein Gegenbild zeichnet.
Das schmale lyrische Gesamtwerk von Tomas Tranströmer hat auch außerhalb Schwedens großen Einfluß ausgeübt; besonders aber in Deutschland. In sei...
A short selection of haunting, meditative poems from the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature
Tomas Transtromer can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Transtromer is a poet of the liminal: drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water, the boundaries between man and nature, wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer, his skepticism about...
A short selection of haunting, meditative poems from the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature
