The Half-finished Heaven
Selected Poems
Published on 9. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-55597-783-2 (ISBN)
Description
A handpicked selection of the best-loved poems of Tomas Transtromer - winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mystical, versatile and sad, the poems (in verse and prose) have earned him international acclaim. A broad retrospective of his work, The Half-Finished Heaven is an excellent English-language introduction to this notable Swedish poet. Widely praised in the US upon publication, it's a book that's not to be missed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
229 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55597-783-2 (9781555977832)
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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."