"Tomas Transtromer, who is today one of Sweden's most distinguished poets . . . can compare Lake Malar at dawn with a blue lamp, the islands creeping over the grass like nocturnal butterflies. He can make his imagery credible. His work is very much a poetry centered on specific moments: the short minute that brings sudden relief, the sense of turning the back to everyday life and opening the window for a brief flash just to listen to the birds and the wind."
"--New York Times"
Tomas Transtromer, who is today one of Sweden s most distinguished poets . . . can compare Lake Malar at dawn with a blue lamp, the islands creeping over the grass like nocturnal butterflies. He can make his imagery credible. His work is very much a poetry centered on specific moments: the short minute that brings sudden relief, the sense of turning the back to everyday life and opening the window for a brief flash just to listen to the birds and the wind.
" New York Times"
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Tomas Transtromer is one of Sweden s leading poets, and is the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2011. He is the author of numerous poetry collections including, most recently, "Sorgegondolen" (The Sorrow Gondola) and "Den stora gatan" (The Great Enigma). He has received the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, the Aftonbladets Literary Prize, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Oevralids Prize, the Petrarch Prize in Germany, the Swedish Award from International Poetry Forum, and the Swedish Academy s Nordic Prize. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages.
May Swenson, translator, was a distinguished American poet and author of numerous collections, including, most recently, "Nature: Poems Old and New" and" May Out West."
Leif Sjoberg, translator, was professor of Swedish at the State University of New York at Stony Brook."
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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 84 pages. An early collection of poems from the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. Translated from the Swedish by May Swenson and Leif Sjoberg. Features a preface by Swenson. A very good copy in blue cloth boards with some creasing to the first two pages and a tiny bit of rough opening to the edge of the second page. Lacking the dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 209607
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