The blue house : collected works of Tomas Tranströmer / Tomas Tranströmer ; translated by Patty Crane ; introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, Swedish Original language: Swedish Publisher: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2023]Description: xxv, 601 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781556596858
- 1556596855
- Collected works of Tomas Tranströmer
- Works. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 839.7174 T772 | Available | 33111011208242 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Nobel Prize-winner Tomas Tranströmer explores the personal and political, the ecological and existential, through poems that expand like the widening scope of a telephoto lens.
Subtle in politics and exact in imagery, the poems of The Blue House range from agile haiku to cinematic prose. Social phenomena are observed in rich detail--a "dictator's bust" presiding over a train car of doomed passengers--and the collection is propelled by empathy and curiosity. Under Tranströmer's watchful eye, no subject is overlooked: Milij Balakirev, the Russian composer; Nils Dacke, the Swedish peasant who led a rebellion against the king; and him, the stranger who forgets his name by the roadside. From the personal to the political to the existential, Tranströmer's poems act as a telephoto lens, granting us reinvigorated access to the world we live in.
Includes indexes.
"A collection of poetry and prose by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane"-- Provided by publisher.
Parallel text in Swedish and English on facing pages.