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The Half-Finished Heaven

By Tomas Transtromer

The Half-Finished Heaven Poetry

The Half-Finished Heaven

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Over the course of his career, Tomas Tranströmer - a poet who could look on the barren isolation of Sweden's landscapes and seascapes like no other, and find in them something hauntingly transcendent - emerged as one of the 20th century's essential global voices. By the time he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011, his luminous, almost mystical work had been translated into more than 50 languages. Gathering his poems from the early, nature-focused work to the later poetry's widening of the scope to take in painting, travel, urban life, and the impositions of technology on the natural world, and stirred throughout by the poet's profound love of music, The Half-Finished Heaven is a unique selection from Tranströmer's work. It is also, in its way, a deeply intimate one: the poems hand-picked here are not only the most beloved, but also those which were translated in the course of Tranströmer's nearly thirty-year correspondence with his close friend and collaborator, the American poet Robert Bly. Few names are more strongly associated with Tranströmer's; and few people have understood not only his poetry, but the processes behind it, more profoundly. The result is perhaps the best English-language introduction to this great and strange poet's work that there could be.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
144
Release Date:
2018-09-27
Publication Date:
2018-09-27
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241362822
ISBN13:
9780241362822
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
116 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
200 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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