| Description |
xxi, 97 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Translated from Swedish. |
| Contents |
Upward into the Depths / by Robert Bly -- From: 17 Poems (1954) / Secrets on the Road (1958) / The Half-Finished Heaven (1962) -- Evening, Morning -- Storm -- The Man Awakened by a Song above His Roof -- Track -- Kyrie -- After the Attack -- Balakirev's Dream (1905) -- The Couple -- Allegro -- Lamento -- The Tree and the Sky -- A Winter Night -- Dark Shape Swimming -- The Half-Finished Heaven -- Nocturne -- From: Resonance and Footprints (1966) / Night Vision (1970) -- Open and Closed Space -- From an African Diary (1963) -- Morning Bird Songs -- Summer Grass -- About History -- After a Death -- Under Pressure -- Slow Music -- Out in the Open -- Solitude -- Breathing Space July -- The Open Window -- Preludes -- The Bookcase -- Outskirts -- Going with the Current -- Traffic -- Night Duty -- A Few Moments -- The Name -- Standing Up -- From: Pathways (1973) / Truth Barriers (1978) -- Elegy -- The Scattered Congregation -- Snow-Melting Time, '66 -- Further In -- Late May -- December Evening, '72 -- Seeing through the Ground -- Guard Duty -- Along the Lines (Far North) -- At Funchal (Island of Madeira) -- Calling Home -- Citoyens -- For Mats and Laila -- After a Long Dry Spell -- A Place in the Woods -- Street Crossing -- Below Freezing -- Start of a Late Autumn Novel -- From the Winter of 1947 -- The Clearing -- Schubertiana -- From: The Wild Market Square (1983) / For the Living and the Dead (1989) / Grief Gondola (1996) -- From March '79 -- Fire Script -- Black Postcards -- Romanesque Arches -- The Forgotten Commander -- Vermeer -- The Cuckoo -- The Kingdom of Uncertainty -- Three Stanzas -- Two Cities -- Island Life, 1860 -- April and Silence -- Grief Gondola, #2. |
| Summary |
The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has a prestigious worldwide reputation many expect that he will someday win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Transtromer's, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Transtromer's poems to create this collection. |
| Subject |
Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931-2015 -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Bly, Robert.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931- Poems English Selections. Half-finished heaven. Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2001 (OCoLC)647573944 |
| ISBN |
1555973515 |
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9781555973513 |
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