| Description |
xxv, 601 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
17 dikter = 17 poems (1954) -- Hemligheter på vägen = Secrets on the way (1958) -- Fängelse = Prison (1959) -- Den halvfärdiga himlen = The half-finished heaven (1962) -- Klanger och spår = Ringing and tracks (1966) -- Mörkerseende = Seeing in the dark (1970) -- Stigar = Paths (1973) -- Östersjöar = Baltics (1974) -- Sanningsbarriären = The truth barrier (1978) -- Det vilda torget = The wild market square (1983) -- För levande och döda = For the living and the dead (1989) -- Minnena ser mig = Memories watch me (1993) -- Sorgegondolen = The sorrow gondola (1996) -- Den stora gåtan = The great enigma (2004). |
| Summary |
"With slow strokes and subtle, rich lines, The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer is evidence of a Nobel Prize-winning poet tracing the world with his pen. A stunning testament to an illustrious career, The Blue House gathers poems and writings from Tranströmer's fourteen collections into a single book. Original Swedish sits alongside their English translations as Patty Crane translates his words into revelatory language acute in the understanding of human change and loss. Subtle in politics and exact in imagery, the poems of The Blue House range from agile haiku to cinematic prose. Social phenomena are observed in rich detail--for instance, a "dictator's bust" presiding over a train car of doomed passengers--and the collection is propelled by empathy and curiosity. Under Tranströmer's watchful eye, no subject is overlooked: Milij Balakirev, the Russian composer; Nils Dacke, the Swedish peasant who led a rebellion against the king; and him, the stranger who forgets his name by the roadside. From the personal to the political to the existential, Tranströmer's poems act as a telephoto lens, granting us reinvigorated access to the world we live in." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Language |
Parallel text in Swedish and English on facing pages. |
| Subject |
Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931-2015 -- Translations into English.
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Swedish poetry -- 20th century.
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Creative nonfiction.
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Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931-2015 (OCoLC)fst00031749
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| Genre/Form |
poetry. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300055931
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Creative nonfiction (OCoLC)fst01919909
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Poetry (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Translations (OCoLC)fst01423791
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Poetry.
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Creative nonfiction.
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| Added Author |
Crane, Patty, translator.
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Komunyakaa, Yusef, writer of introduction.
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| Added Title |
Works. English
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Collected works of Tomas Tranströmer |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931-2015. Blue house Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2023] 9781619322783 (DLC) 2023008768 |
| ISBN |
9781556596858 (hardcover) |
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1556596855 (hardcover) |
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9781619322783 electronic book |
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