Fulton updates his collected edition of 1987, adding Transtromer's
last two volumes of verse and his prose memoir, and giving us whole
the work of Sweden's modern master (b.1931), whose universal vision
is affirmed by his translation into some 40 languages worldwide.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Tomas Transtroemer (1931-2015) was Sweden's most important poet of
the past fifty years. This book contains all the poems he
published, including those from the Bloodaxe Collected Poems of
1987, as well as three later collections, For Living and Dead
(1989), The Sad Gondola (1996) and The Great Enigma (2004), and a
prose memoir. A further revised edition was published in 2011. In
Sweden he has been called a 'buzzard poet' because his haunting,
visionary poetry shows the world from a height, in a mystic
dimension, but brings every detail of the natural world into sharp
focus. His poems are often explorations of the borderland between
sleep and waking, between the conscious and unconscious states.
Transtroeomer was born in Stockholm, where he grew up, but spent
many long summers on the island of Runmaroe in the nearby
archipelago, evoking that landscape in his early work, which draws
on the aesthetic tradition of Swedish nature poetry. His later
poetry is more personal, open and relaxed, often reflecting his
broad interests: travel, music, painting, archaeology and natural
sciences. Many of his poems use compressed description and
concentrate on a single distinct image as a catalyst for
psychological insight and metaphysical interpretation. This acts as
a meeting-point or threshold between conflicting elements or
forces: sea and land, man and nature, freedom and control. Robin
Fulton worked with Tomas Transtroemer on each of his collections as
they were published over many years, which involved detailed
exchanges between translator and poet on the meaning and music of
numerous poems. There have been several translations as well as
some books of so-called "versions" of Transtromer's poetry
published in English, but Fulton's is the most authoritative and
comprehensive edition of his poetry published anywhere.
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