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The Deleted World: Poems
The Deleted World: Poems
The Deleted World: Poems
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The Deleted World: Poems

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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.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 25, 2014
ISBN9781466886124
The Deleted World: Poems
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Tomas Tranströmer

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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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Concrete poems full of sensations and strength. I recommend the book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    I found this short book of poems wonderful. I loved the imagery in particular. My favorites were "Autumnal Archipelago", "The Couple", "A Winter Night", "Out in the Open" and "From March 1979" (though there were no poems that I didn't like!).
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    More, please!I wish the publisher had been more generous with the selections included. This is a very thin volume.It would perhaps be understandable if this were a chapbook and Tranströmer was a young unknown. But with the low number of selections - and the general amount of white space on the pages - it's quite disappointing for a senior poet who has recently been awarded the Nobel Prize.

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The Deleted World - Tomas Tranströmer

INTRODUCTION

by Robin Robertson

Every October for decades, a group of reporters and photographers from all over the world has gathered in the stairwell of an apartment block in Stockholm, waiting to hear if the poet upstairs has finally won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The poet’s wife, Monica, would bring them tea and biscuits while they stood around—but they would always leave, around lunchtime, as the news came in that the prize had gone to someone else. Annually, the name of Tomas Tranströmer came up, and with every year one felt a growing sense that he would never receive this highest literary honor from his own country. The vigil is over now, with the wonderful, almost unbelievable news of October

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