The Deleted World: Poems

The Deleted World: Poems - Paperback

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The Deleted World: Poems

The Deleted World: Poems - Paperback

by Tomas Transtromer
$19.00
Sale price  $19.00 Regular price 

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by Tomas Transtromer (Author), Robin Robertson (Translator)

A short selection of haunting, meditative poems from the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

Tomas 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.

Author Biography

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."

Number of Pages: 64
Dimensions: 0.22 x 8.16 x 5.67 IN
Publication Date: December 19, 2011
ISBN9780374533533
Author Tomas Transtromer
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages64
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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