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    The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

    By Tomas Tranströmer

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    From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

    The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer's, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Tranströmer's poems to create this cherished and invaluable collection.

    Contents

    Introduction: "Upward into the Depths" by Robert Bly

    1
    From
    17 Poems (1954)
    Secrets on the Road (1958)
    The Half-Finished Heaven (1962)

    Evening—Morning
    Storm
    The Man Awakened by a Song above His Roof
    Track
    Kyrie
    After the Attack
    Balakirev's Dream (1905)
    The Couple
    Allegro
    Lamento
    The Tree and the Sky
    A Winter Night
    Dark Shape Swimming
    The Half-Finished Heaven
    Nocturne

    2
    From
    Resonance and Footprints (1966)
    Night Vision (1970)

    Open and Closed Space
    From an African Diary
    Morning Bird Songs
    Summer Grass
    About History
    After a Death
    Under Pressure
    Slow Music
    Out in the Open
    Solitude
    Breathing Space July
    The Open Window
    s26Preludes
    The Bookcase
    Outskirts
    Going with the Current
    Traffic
    Night Duty
    A Few Moments
    The Name
    Standing Up

    3
    From
    Pathways (1973)
    Truth Barriers (1978)

    Elegy
    The Scattered Congregation
    Snow-Melting Time, '66
    Further In
    Late May
    December Evening, '72
    Seeing through the Ground
    Guard Duty
    Along the Lines (Far North)
    At Funchal (Island of Madeira)
    Calling Home
    Citoyens
    For Mats and Laila
    After a Long Dry Spell
    A Place in the Woods
    Street Crossing
    Below Freezing
    Start of a Late Autumn Novel
    From the Winter of 1947
    The Clearing
    Schubertiana

    4
    From
    The Wild Market Square (1983)
    For the Living and the Dead (1989)
    Grief Gondola (1996)

    From March '79
    Fire Script
    Black Postcards
    Romanesque Arches
    The Forgotten Commander
    Vermeer
    The Cuckoo
    The Kingdom of Uncertainty
    Three Stanzas
    Two Cities
    Island Life, 1860
    April and Silence
    Grief Gondola #2

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 9, 2017
    ISBN9781555979751
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    The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected 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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