(P/B) THE GREAT ENIGMA

Παρουσίαση

Translated into fifty languages, perhaps no other poet since Pablo Neruda has had such an international presence in his own lifetime as Tomas Transtromer. The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems gathers all the poems Transtromer has ever published, from his dis-tinctive first collection in 1954,17 Poems, through his epic poem Baltics ("my most consis-tent 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 book, The Great Enigma, published in Sweden in 2004. All twelve of his poetry books are collected here, plus a newly published cycle of haiku poems, "Prison," and his beautiful prose memoir of growing up in Sweden, Memories Look at Me. Writes Transtromer: "within us, balanced like a gyroscope, is joy." (From the publisher)

"The Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has written, 'My poems are meeting places.' The metaphor is singularly apt for his divided career, his dominant concerns, his wide-ranging subject matter and, not least, for his claim on a growing audience of American readers." [The New York Times]

"In its delicate hovering between the responsibilities of the social world and the invitations of a world of possibly numinous reality, Tomas Transtromer's poetry permits us to be happily certain of our own uncertainties - Like the animals in Rilke's first sonnet to Orpheus, they are alive to the god's music which 'makes a temple deep inside their hearing." [Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate]

Περιεχόμενα

17 Poems (1954)
Secrets on the Way (1958)
Prison (1959)
The Half-finished Heaven (1962)
Bells and Tracks (1966)
Seeing in the Dark (1970)
Paths (1973)
Baltics (1974)
The Truthbarrier (1978)
The Wild Market Square (1983)
For the Living and the Dead (1989)
The Sad Gondola (1996)
The Great Enigma (2004)
Prose Memoir: Memories Look at Me (1993)