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Collected Poems
In 1990, the Swedish poet Transtromer was named the winner of the $25,000 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma. "Transtromer is the best-known Swedish poet in the English-speaking world, whose translated works are popular in U.S. universities", said Ivar Ivask, juror and (then) editor of World Literature Today. Transtromer "touches a chord beyond the academic circle, and he speaks to a wider readership than the specialists in Scandinavian or Swedish literature" Ivask said. This valuable collection contains all the poems he has written during the past 30 years.
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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About the author
Tomas Tranströmer
155 books387 followersHis poetry, building on Modernism, Expressionism, and Surrealism, contains powerful imagery concerned with issues of fragmentation and isolation. “He has perfected a particular kind of epiphanic lyric, often in quatrains, in which nature is the active, energizing subject, and the self (if the self is present at all) is the object,” notes critic Katie Peterson in the Boston Review.
Critic and poet Tom Sleigh observed, in his Interview with a Ghost (2006), that “Tranströmer’s poems imagine the spaces that the deep then inhabits, like ground water gushing up into a newly dug well.”
His honors include the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, the Aftonbladets Literary Prize, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Oevralids Prize, the Petrarch Prize in Germany, the Swedish Award from International Poetry Forum,the Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize, and especially the 2011 Nobel Prize in literature. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages.
Tranströmer suffered a stroke in 1990, and after a six-year silence published his collection Sorgegondolen (Grief Gondola) (1996). Prior to his stroke, he worked as a psychologist, focusing on the juvenile prison population as well as the disabled, convicts, and drug addicts. He lives in Sweden.
On Thursday, 6th of October 2011 he was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality".
Critic and poet Tom Sleigh observed, in his Interview with a Ghost (2006), that “Tranströmer’s poems imagine the spaces that the deep then inhabits, like ground water gushing up into a newly dug well.”
His honors include the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, the Aftonbladets Literary Prize, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Oevralids Prize, the Petrarch Prize in Germany, the Swedish Award from International Poetry Forum,the Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize, and especially the 2011 Nobel Prize in literature. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages.
Tranströmer suffered a stroke in 1990, and after a six-year silence published his collection Sorgegondolen (Grief Gondola) (1996). Prior to his stroke, he worked as a psychologist, focusing on the juvenile prison population as well as the disabled, convicts, and drug addicts. He lives in Sweden.
On Thursday, 6th of October 2011 he was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality".
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June 9, 2019
Tranströmer lesen – die beste Zeit dafür ist allein in der Stille der Nacht – heißt sich dem von weit her Geholten ergeben. Es heißt aus dem Bett steigen und dem lauschen, was das Haus sagt, und dem, wie der Wind draußen antwortet.
Teju Cole, Vertraute Dinge, fremde Dinge: Essays
Teju Cole, Vertraute Dinge, fremde Dinge: Essays
September 9, 2018
Blir aldri lei. Never tire of Transtrømer
shelf-of-shame
March 9, 2021I admit I DNF'ed this one. It was not the work's fault, it was me. I'm the problem here!
January 21, 2015
Ikke dårligt af et digteværk at være. Faktisk ret godt sine steder. Skrev han lidt overrasket over sig selv.
Læsere af disse noter vil vide, at jeg ikke er den store lyrikfan. Jeg kan ikke helt sætte fingeren på, hvorfor det er sådan. Måske skyldes det en 25-30 år gammel i folkeskole- og gymnasietiden installeret aversion mod pligtanalyser af gamle døde og moderne uforståelige digte. Måske har jeg været så uheldig at støde ind i for mange uudholdeligt selvsmagende jamrekrukker, der forsøger at illudere dybde og smerte og mystisk talent via pinagtige metaforer og andre prætentiøse former.
Måske har jeg bare ikke tålmodigheden til at dvæle længe nok ved en enkelt strofe i et enkelt digt, til at jeg kan fravriste den sit overskud af mening (omvendt bruger jeg gerne lang tid og anstrengelse på at afkode svært tilgængelig romanværker). Eller også er jeg slet og ret mestendels et meget prosaisk menneske.
Anyway: Den svenske nobelprismodtager Tomas Tranströmer (f.1931) og hans samlede værker har i løbet af de seneste forårsdage gjort sit for at nedbryde mine fordomme mod lyrikken. Ihvertfald kan jeg ikke afvise, at nogle af Tranströmers strofer og digte har fået hægtet nogle bådshager fast steder i mig: nogle i hjernen, nogle i hjertet og andre i knoglerne.
Læs min anmeldelse her: http://bognoter.dk/2014/06/01/tomas-t...
Læsere af disse noter vil vide, at jeg ikke er den store lyrikfan. Jeg kan ikke helt sætte fingeren på, hvorfor det er sådan. Måske skyldes det en 25-30 år gammel i folkeskole- og gymnasietiden installeret aversion mod pligtanalyser af gamle døde og moderne uforståelige digte. Måske har jeg været så uheldig at støde ind i for mange uudholdeligt selvsmagende jamrekrukker, der forsøger at illudere dybde og smerte og mystisk talent via pinagtige metaforer og andre prætentiøse former.
Måske har jeg bare ikke tålmodigheden til at dvæle længe nok ved en enkelt strofe i et enkelt digt, til at jeg kan fravriste den sit overskud af mening (omvendt bruger jeg gerne lang tid og anstrengelse på at afkode svært tilgængelig romanværker). Eller også er jeg slet og ret mestendels et meget prosaisk menneske.
Anyway: Den svenske nobelprismodtager Tomas Tranströmer (f.1931) og hans samlede værker har i løbet af de seneste forårsdage gjort sit for at nedbryde mine fordomme mod lyrikken. Ihvertfald kan jeg ikke afvise, at nogle af Tranströmers strofer og digte har fået hægtet nogle bådshager fast steder i mig: nogle i hjernen, nogle i hjertet og andre i knoglerne.
Læs min anmeldelse her: http://bognoter.dk/2014/06/01/tomas-t...
May 6, 2012
You can always take this out and find a new favourite. The older I get the more I enjoy his phrasing and odd word combinations. Can sometimes be a bit too focused on the themes of loss and death for my taste.
July 26, 2015
Fünf Sterne für Tranströmers reiche Dichtersprache, besonders seine eigenwilligen, oftmals haikuartigen Bilder.
Five stars for Tranströmer's rich poetic language, especially his idiosyncratic, in many instances haiku-like imagery.
Five stars for Tranströmer's rich poetic language, especially his idiosyncratic, in many instances haiku-like imagery.
August 4, 2015
leider nicht als ebook, sonst könnte ich es immer dabeihaben.
August 5, 2023
Not all poems resonated with me, but the ones that did, did it all the stronger. Tomas Tranströmer really has a talent for connecting observations in nature to the human mind.
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