The English translation of Tranströmer's complete poems — making his full body of work accessible to English readers, published in the year he won the Nobel Prize.
The definitive English-language Tranströmer: Robin Robertson's translations capture the compression and visual precision of Tranströmer's Swedish. The collected poems as a body of work: Tranströmer's entire output (relatively small — he was a slow, precise poet) shows a remarkably consistent vision developed over 50 years. Essential for understanding one of the 20th century's great poets.
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