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New collected poems
Tomas Transtromer
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Paperback. Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is Sweden's most important poet. This book includes all the poems he has written during the past fifty years. Robin Fulton's translation is the most authoritative and comprehensive edition of his poetry published anywhere. Translator(s): Fulton, Robin. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392. 256 pages. Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is Sweden's most important poet. This book includes all the poems he has written during the past fifty years. Robin Fulton's translation is the most authoritative and comprehensive edition of his poetry published anywhere. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 18. Weight: 394. Translator(s): Fulton, Robin.
Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015) was Sweden’s most important poet of the past fifty years. This book contains all the poems he published, including those from the Bloodaxe Collected Poems of 1987, as well as three later collections, For Living and Dead (1989), The Sad Gondola (1996) and The Great Enigma (2004), and a prose memoir. A further revised edition was published in 2011. In Sweden he has been called a 'buzzard poet' because his haunting, visionary poetry shows the world from a height, in a mystic dimension, but brings every detail of the natural world into sharp focus. His poems are ... Read more
Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015) was Sweden’s most important poet of the past fifty years. This book contains all the poems he published, including those from the Bloodaxe Collected Poems of 1987, as well as three later collections, For Living and Dead (1989), The Sad Gondola (1996) and The Great Enigma (2004), and a prose memoir. A further revised edition was published in 2011. In Sweden he has been called a 'buzzard poet' because his haunting, visionary poetry shows the world from a height, in a mystic dimension, but brings every detail of the natural world into sharp focus. His poems are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852244132
SKU
V9781852244132
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About Tomas Transtromer
Tomas Transtromer was born in 1931 in Stockholm, where he grew up, but spent many long summers on the island of Runmaro in the nearby archipelago, evoking that landscape in his early work, which draws on the aesthetic tradition of Swedish nature poetry. His later poetry is more personal, open and relaxed, often reflecting his broad interests: travel, music, painting, ... Read more
Reviews for New collected poems
Fulton's translation from the Swedish is excellent: a poet of exceptional achievement has with this volume been born into English.
Guardian
In its delicate hovering between the responsibilities of the social world and the invitations of a world of possibly numinous reality, Tomas Tranströmer's poetry permits us to be happily certain of our own uncertainties… Like the animals ... Read more
Guardian
In its delicate hovering between the responsibilities of the social world and the invitations of a world of possibly numinous reality, Tomas Tranströmer's poetry permits us to be happily certain of our own uncertainties… Like the animals ... Read more