The half-finished heaven : the best poems of Tomas Tranströmer

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The half-finished heaven : the best poems of Tomas Tranströmer

Author:

Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931-2015

Uniform Title:

Poems English Selections

ISBN:

9781555973513

Publication Information:

Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2001.

Physical Description:

xxi, 97 p. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Translated from Swedish.

Contents:

Upward into the Depths / by Robert Bly -- 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 -- Nocturne -- From: Resonance and Footprints (1966) / Night Vision (1970) -- Open and Closed Space -- From an African Diary (1963) -- 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 -- Preludes -- The Bookcase -- Outskirts -- Going with the Current -- Traffic -- Night Duty -- A Few Moments -- The Name -- Standing Up -- 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 -- Schubertiana -- 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.

Personal Subject:

Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931-2015-Translations into English.

Subject Term:

Swedish poetry -- 20th century.

Added Author:

Bly, Robert.

Summary:

The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has a prestigious worldwide reputation many expect that he will someday win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Transtromer's, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Transtromer's poems to create this collection.

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From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer's, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Tranströmer's poems to create this cherished and invaluable collection.

Contents

Introduction: "Upward into the Depths" by Robert Bly

1
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
Nocturne

2
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 Up

3
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
Schubertiana

4
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

Author Notes

Tomas Tranströmer (1933-2015) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011. His books of poetry, which have been translated into sixty languages, include The Deleted World and The Half-Finished Heaven , and he received numerous international honors during his lifetime. Tranströmer, a trained Swedish psychologist, worked for years in state institutions with juveniles and the disabled, and his work was often praised for the inventive ways in which it examined the mind. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy stated that "through his condensed, translucent images, he gave us fresh access to reality."

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Publisher's Weekly Review

Mystical, versatile and sad, the poems (in verse and prose) of Tomas Transtromer have made him Sweden's best-known living writer. Robert Bly (Eating the Honey of Words, etc.) has long championed Transtr?mer; his latest effort in this line is The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Transtr?mer. Here are the dream and nightmare images that influenced U.S. poetry in the '60s, where "Moths settle down on the pane:/ small pale telegrams from the world." Here, too, are the brief, haunting works of more recent years: "I am carried inside/ my own shadow like a violin/ in its black case." (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Robert Bly

Introduction: "Upward into the Depths"	p. ix
1 from 17 Poems (1954)/Secrets on the Road (1958)/The Half-Finished Heaven (1962)
Evening--Morning	p. 3
Storm	p. 4
The Man Awakened by a Song above His Roof	p. 5
Track	p. 6
Kyrie	p. 7
After the Attack	p. 8
Balakirev's Dream (1905)	p. 9
The Couple	p. 11
Allegro	p. 12
Lamento	p. 13
The Tree and the Sky	p. 14
A Winter Night	p. 15
Dark Shape Swimming	p. 16
The Half-Finished Heaven	p. 17
Nocturne	p. 18
2 from Resonance and Footprints (1966)/Night Vision (1970)
Open and Closed Space	p. 21
From an African Diary (1963)	p. 22
Morning Bird Songs	p. 23
Summer Grass	p. 25
About History	p. 26
After a Death	p. 28
Under Pressure	p. 29
Slow Music	p. 30
Out in the Open	p. 31
Solitude	p. 33
Breathing Space July	p. 35
The Open Window	p. 36
Preludes	p. 38
The Bookcase	p. 40
Outskirts	p. 41
Going with the Current	p. 42
Traffic	p. 44
Night Duty	p. 46
A Few Moments	p. 47
The Name	p. 48
Standing Up	p. 49
3 from Pathways (1973)/Truth Barriers (1978)
Elegy	p. 53
The Scattered Congregation	p. 54
Snow-Melting Time, '66	p. 55
Further In	p. 56
Late May	p. 57
December Evening, '72	p. 58
Seeing through the Ground	p. 59
Guard Duty	p. 60
Along the Lines (Far North)	p. 62
At Funchal (Island of Madeira)	p. 64
Calling Home	p. 65
Citoyens	p. 66
For Mats and Laila	p. 67
After a Long Dry Spell	p. 69
A Place in the Woods	p. 70
Street Crossing	p. 71
Below Freezing	p. 72
Start of a Late Autumn Novel	p. 73
From the Winter of 1947	p. 74
The Clearing	p. 75
Schubertiana	p. 76
4 from The Wild Market Square (1983)/For the Living and the Dead (1989)/Grief Gondola (1996)
From March '79	p. 81
Fire Script	p. 82
Black Postcards	p. 83
Romanesque Arches	p. 84
The Forgotten Commander	p. 85
Vermeer	p. 87
The Cuckoo	p. 89
The Kingdom of Uncertainty	p. 90
Three Stanzas	p. 91
Two Cities	p. 92
Island Life, 1860	p. 93
April and Silence	p. 94
Grief Gondola #2	p. 95

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