{"title":"Tomas Transtromer","description":"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.\"","products":[{"product_id":"selected-poems-paperback","title":"Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTomas Tranströmer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private citizen in the second half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTomas Transtr?mer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private citizen in the second half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376586555615,"sku":"9780880014038","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WD8zyPP3pV9780880014038.webp?v=1789218092"},{"product_id":"the-deleted-world-poems-paperback","title":"The Deleted World: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA short selection of haunting, meditative poems from the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTomas Tranströmer can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water, the boundaries between man and nature, wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer, his skepticism about humanity is continually challenged by the implacable renewing power of the natural world. His poems are epiphanies rooted in experience: spare, luminous meditations that his extraordinary images split open--exposing something sudden, mysterious, and unforgettable.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51399489814751,"sku":"9780374533533","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Gvg2dQA1ra9780374533533.webp?v=1789485936"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/tomas-transtromer.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}