Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2011. He was then the first Swedish writer to become a laureate for almost forty years. This anthology takes an intercontinental perspective on the poetry of Tranströmer. It raises the question of how his poetry is actually perceived in c[...]

The illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas TranstromerOne day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the la[...]

Written a few years after Transtromer suffered a stroke that left him unable tospeak, Memories Look at Me is Tomas Transtromer s lyrical autobiography aboutgrowing up in Sweden. His story opens with a streak of light, a comet that becomesa brilliant metaphor for my life as he tries to penetrate the [...]

Combining poetry and a memoir of his childhood in Sweden in one volume, For the Living and the Dead once again demonstrates Tomas Transtromer's gift for capturing and grounding the elusive, luminous details of our modern world. A work that bridges the space between those real and unreal elements of [...]

Tomas Transtromer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private citizen in the second half of the twentieth cent[...]

Tomas Transtromer won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is Sweden's most important poet. This book includes all the poems he has written during the past fifty years, including those from the Bloodaxe Collected Poems of 1987, as well as three later collections, For Living and Dead (1989), The Sa[...]

Tomas Transtromer (19312015), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is Sweden s most acclaimed poet. Known for sharp imagery, startling metaphors and deceptively simple diction, his luminous poems offer mysterious glimpses into the deepest facets of humanity, often through the lens of the natura[...]