Tomas Tranströmer -- the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature -- can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water, the boundaries between man and nature, wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer, his skepticism about humanity is continually challenged by the implacable renewing power of the natural world. His poems are epiphanies rooted in experience: spare, luminous meditations that his extraordinary images split open -- exposing something sudden, mysterious, and unforgettable.
Brilliantly translated by renowned Scottish poet Robin Robertson, the work collected in The Deleted World span the breadth of Tranströmer’s career and provide a perfect introduction to the work of one of the world’s greatest living poets.
Tomas Tranströmer -- the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature -- can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water, the boundaries between man and nature, wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer, his skepticism about humanity is continually challenged by the implacable renewing power of the natural world. His poems are epiphanies rooted in experience: spare, luminous meditations that his extraordinary images split open -- exposing something sudden, mysterious, and unforgettable.
Brilliantly translated by renowned Scottish poet Robin Robertson, the work collected in The Deleted World span the breadth of Tranströmer’s career and provide a perfect introduction to the work of one of the world’s greatest living poets.
| Published By | House of Anansi Press Inc — Dec 9, 2011 |
| Specifications | 64 pages | 5.5 in x 8.25 in |
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| Written By | Tomas Tranströmer has written eleven books of poetry and has received numerous international honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives with his wife in Stockholm. |
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| Tomas Tranströmer has written eleven books of poetry and has received numerous international honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives with his wife in Stockholm. |
“[Robin] Robertson has done justice to the greatest qualities of Transtromer’s poems: their evocative, striking imagery and uncanny metaphorical resonance ... a collection that sparks with an exquisite, awakened awareness of the world.” —Toronto Star
“[Transtromer] displays a masterful sense of cinematic imagery ... the selected poems are spare, powerful, and image-driven.” —Winnipeg Free Press
“... Robertson’s alterations do a fine job of conveying a poem’s spirit ... The Deleted World is pleasurable ...” —New York Times