The Great Enigma : new collected poems / Tomas Tranströmer. 2011 Nobel Prize winner.
New York : New Directions Press ; c1987/2006. xxii, 262 pages ; 9 in. trade paperback. Condition is Brand New. Ships by US Media Mail. Combined or expedited shipping available; DM seller with inquiries.
"Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Tranströmer
has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has
steadily grown and has now attained a prominence comparable to that of
Pablo Neruda's during his lifetime. But if Neruda is blazing fire,
Transtromer is expanding ice. The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems gathers all the poems Tomas Tranströmer has published, from his distinctive first collection in 1954, 17 Poems, through his epic poem Baltics ('my most consistent attempt to write music'), and The Sad Gondola,
published six years after he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1990 ('I
am carried in my shadow / like a violin / in its black case.'), to his
most recent slim book, The Great Enigma, published in Sweden in 2004. Also included is his prose-memoir Memories Look at Me,
containing keys into his intensely spiritual, metaphysical poetry (like
the brief passage of insect collecting on Runmaro Island when he was a
teenager). Firmly rooted in the natural world, his work falls between
dream and dream; it probes 'the great unsolved love' with the opening
up, through subtle modulations, of 'concrete words.'"