The Half-finished Heaven: The Best Poems Of Tomas Transtromer

The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has a prestigious worldwide reputation; many expect that he will someday win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Transtromer's, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Transtromer's poems to create this cherished and invaluable collection.
Contents
Introduction: "Upward into the Depths" by Robert Bly
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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 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
Startof 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