News that the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature had been awarded to
the Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer was greeted with widespread
approval by poets and poetry readers the world over. The author of
fifteen collections of poems, Transtromer had in fact been
nominated for the prize every year since 1993, a sign of his huge
standing and importance in world poetry, undiminished in recent
years despite a stroke in 1990 that left him partially paralyzed
and unable to speak. The Nobel citation praised Transtromer's poems
of "condensed, translucent images" which give us "fresh access to
reality," and that startling originality is everywhere to be seen
in the poems gathered here, first published as two separate volumes
by the Dedalus Press, The Wild Marketplace (1985) and For the
Living and the Dead (1994), both translated by John F. Deane, the
latter in collaboration with the poet himself.
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