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The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
Transtromer, Tomas, Fulton, Robin (Translator)
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Format: Paperback, 262pp.
Date of publication: Oct 17 2006
ISBN-13: 9780811216722
Dimensions: 23.11 cm. (length) X 15.24 cm. (width) X 2.03 cm. (thickness)
Weight: 431 grams
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About the Book
The "Collected Poems" of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Transtromer, 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 Transtromer 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, Transtromer is expanding ice. "The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems" gathers all the poems Tomas Transtromer 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... [More...] [Edit review] [Delete review]
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