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by: Tomas Transtromer
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.7174
EAN: 9780811216722
ISBN: 0811216721
Label: New Directions
Manufacturer: New Directions
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: October 30, 2003
Publisher: New Directions
Sales Rank: 239120
Studio: New Directions
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The Collected Poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Tranströmer, now available in this comprehensive edition.
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 Tranströmer 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, Tranströmer is expanding ice. The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems gathers all the poems Tomas Tranströmer has published, from his distinctive first collection in 1954, 17 Poems, through his epic poem Baltics ('my most consistent attempt to write music'), and The Sad Gondola, published six years after he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1990 ('I am carried in my shadow / like a violin / in its black case.'), to his most recent slim book, The Great Enigma, published in Sweden in 2004. Also included is his prose-memoir Memories Look at Me, containing keys into his intensely spiritual, metaphysical poetry (like the brief passage of insect collecting on Runmarö Island when he was a teenager). Firmly rooted in the natural world, his work falls between dream and dream; it probes 'the great unsolved love' with the opening up, through subtle modulations, of 'concrete words.'
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Rating: - Beautiful language
If you like poem, you must read this book.
If you dislike poem, you may be changed after reading "The Great Enigma".
Rating: - The Scandinavian World of the Sea and the Elements of Nature
Tomas Tranströmer is a Swedish poet who is one of the strongest and most frequently honored artists of the time. Robin Fulton has translated and curated the bulk of Tranströmer's published poems in this magnificent book THE GREAT ENIGMA: NEW COLLECTED POEMS and it is a rare treat. In one tome are some of the most moving conversations with and about nature this reader has ever read. Tranströmer's ability to alter the landscape of the sea and the cliffs, the islands and havens, with an imagination ... Read More
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