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Fulton's translation from the Swedish is excellent: a poet of exceptional achievement has with this volume been born into English. --Guardian
In its delicate hovering between the responsibilities of the social world and the invitations of a world of possibly numinous reality, Tomas Tranströmer's poetry permits us to be happily certain of our own uncertainties… Like the animals in Rilke's first sonnet to Orpheus, they are alive to the god's music which "makes a temple deep inside their hearing. --Seamus Heaney
Tranströmer is a vivid evoker of both landscapes and cityscapes… The writer, he says, is 'at the same time eagle and mole', looking down or looking up from the vantage point best suited to catching life before it disappears. Tranströmer is especially good at memorable moments of panic, uncertainty, displacement, from which the speaker can recover but which remind him of darknesses and worlds no one would want to inhabit for long. --Edwin Morgan, Northwords
In its delicate hovering between the responsibilities of the social world and the invitations of a world of possibly numinous reality, Tomas Tranströmer's poetry permits us to be happily certain of our own uncertainties… Like the animals in Rilke's first sonnet to Orpheus, they are alive to the god's music which "makes a temple deep inside their hearing. --Seamus Heaney
Tranströmer is a vivid evoker of both landscapes and cityscapes… The writer, he says, is 'at the same time eagle and mole', looking down or looking up from the vantage point best suited to catching life before it disappears. Tranströmer is especially good at memorable moments of panic, uncertainty, displacement, from which the speaker can recover but which remind him of darknesses and worlds no one would want to inhabit for long. --Edwin Morgan, Northwords
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Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Tomas Tranströmer 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 two later collections, FOR LIVING AND DEAD and THE SAD GONDOLA, and his prose memoir MEMORIES LOOK AT ME. The 2010 reprint has been expanded to include his most recent collection, THE GREAT ENIGMA (2004), making this the definitive English edition of Tranströmer's work, a complete translation of all his Swedish collections. In his early work Tranströmer drew on the aesthetic traditions of Swedish nature poetry. His poetry then became more personal, open and relaxed. In Sweden he has been called a 'buzzard poet' because his haunting, visionary poetry shows the world from a height, in a mystic dimension, but brings every detail of the natural world into sharp focus. His poems are often explorations of the borderland between sleep and waking, between the conscious and unconscious states. Tranströmer was born in 1931 in Stockholm, where he grew up, but spent many long summers on the island of Runmarö in the nearby archipelago, evoking that landscape in his early work, which draws on the aesthetic tradition of Swedish nature poetry. His later poetry is more personal, open and relaxed, often reflecting his broad interests: travel, music, painting, archaeology and natural sciences. Many of his poems use compressed description and concentrate on a single distinct image as a catalyst for psychological insight and metaphysical interpretation. This acts as a meeting-point or threshold between conflicting elements or forces: sea and land, man and nature, freedom and control. Robin Fulton has worked with Tomas Tranströmer on each of his collections as they have been published over many years, which has involved detailed exchanges between translator and poet on the meaning and music of numerous poems. There have been several translations as well as some books of so-called "versions" of Tranströmer's poetry published in English, but Fulton's is the most authoritative and comprehensive edition of his poetry published anywhere.
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Finding Transtrommer poetry was like walking into a cool room flooded with winter light. His work is shorn of all ornament and what is left is luminously truthful.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Each of the poems in this volume offers a profound insight and demands many readings. Transtromer looks at the world and sees to the quick of things. BUT reading in translation, however excellent the translator might be, has proved agonisingly frustrating. Swedish is not an accessible language in the way of French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek even, and so I am left with words that the poet did not originally hear and images that he did not originally see. I do not know how these poems sounded in his head. I cannot appreciate the forms he crafted; the rhythms above all. I cannot easily turn to the originals or make use of dictionaries. I have listened to what is available online and am deeply aware of the poet's musicality. Can the publisher issue an CD read in Swedish to accompany these evidently wonderful poems?
As a teenager I saw a dubbed version of a Bergman film and felt cheated. I am left with the same feeling of frustration. But, at least Bergman was available with sub titles.
As a teenager I saw a dubbed version of a Bergman film and felt cheated. I am left with the same feeling of frustration. But, at least Bergman was available with sub titles.
13 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Very good translation of a wonderful poet. Well printed, includes prose, at a very fair price and delivered extremly well.
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