The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

An expanded edition by the Nobel laureate Tomas Transtromer, translated by the award-winning poet Robert Bly

Every person is a half-open door
leading to a room for everyone.

The endless field under us.

Water glitt [...]
Visa längre beskrivning

From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

An expanded edition by the Nobel laureate Tomas Transtromer, translated by the award-winning poet Robert Bly

Every person is a half-open door
leading to a room for everyone.

The endless field under us.

Water glitters between the trees.

The lake is a window into the earth.

from The Half-Finished Heaven Tomas Transtromer s celebrated career earned him a place among the twentieth century s essential global voices. Translated into more than fifty languages, his poetry draws readers to its power and resonance, its shaping of landscapes both outer and interior, stark and yet alive to the luminous. In 2011, Transtromer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality. The National Book Award winning poet and renowned translator Robert Bly first introduced American readers to Transtromer s poetry in his seminal English translations, all of which are collected here for the first time in this expanded edition. With an updated introduction and fourteen additional poems, The Half-Finished Heaven presents the best of Transtromer s poetry in one indispensable volume.ContentsIntroduction: "Upward into the Depths" by Robert Bly1
From
17 Poems (1954)
Secrets on the Road (1958)
The Half-Finished Heaven (1962)Evening Morning
Storm
The Man Awakened by a Song above His Roof
Track
Kyrie
After the Attack
Balakirev's Dream (1905)
The Couple
Allegro
Lamento
The Tree and the Sky
A Winter Night
Dark Shape Swimming
The Half-Finished Heaven
Nocturne2
From
Resonance and Footprints (1966)
Night Vision (1970)Open and Closed Space
From an African Diary
Morning Bird Songs
Summer Grass
About History
After a Death
Under Pressure
Slow Music
Out in the Open
Solitude
Breathing Space July
The Open Window
s26Preludes
The Bookcase
Outskirts
Going with the Current
Traffic
Night Duty
A Few Moments
The Name
Standing Up3
From
Pathways (1973)
Truth Barriers (1978)Elegy
The Scattered Congregation
Snow-Melting Time, '66
Further In
Late May
December Evening, '72
Seeing through the Ground
Guard Duty
Along the Lines (Far North)
At Funchal (Island of Madeira)
Calling Home
Citoyens
For Mats and Laila
After a Long Dry Spell
A Place in the Woods
Street Crossing
Below Freezing
Start of a Late Autumn Novel
From the Winter of 1947
The Clearing
Schubertiana4
From
The Wild Market Square (1983)
For the Living and the Dead (1989)
Grief Gondola (1996)From March '79
Fire Script
Black Postcards
Romanesque Arches
The Forgotten Commander
Vermeer
The Cuckoo
The Kingdom of Uncertainty
Three Stanzas
Two Cities
Island Life, 1860
April and Silence
Grief Gondola #2"