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The Blue House : Collected Works of Tomas Transtromer, Hardback Book

The Blue House : Collected Works of Tomas Transtromer Hardback

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With fiery compassion, Nobel Prize-winner Tomas Transtrmer gloves himself in nature poetics to analyze suffering without getting burnt by the pain.

With slow strokes and subtle, rich lines, The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Transtrmer is evidence of a Nobel Prize-winning poet tracing the world with his pen. A stunning testament to an illustrious career, The Blue Housegathers poems and writings from Transtrmers fourteen collections into a single book. Original Swedish sits alongside their English translations as Patty Crane translates his words into revelatory language acute in the understanding of human change and loss.

Subtle in politics and exact in imagery, the poemsofThe Blue Houserange from agile haiku to cinematic prose. Social phenomena are observed in rich detaila dictators bust presiding over a train car of doomed passengersand the collection is propelled by empathy and curiosity. Under Transtrmers 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, Transtrmers poems act as a telephoto lens, granting us reinvigorated access to the world we live in.

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