20 poems by tomas transtromer biography

Born in a working-class Stockholm neighborhood in , Tranströmer has lived a unique life as a poet....

Tomas Tranströmer

Once there was a shock
that left behind a long, shimmering comet tail.
It keeps us inside.

It makes the TV pictures snowy.
It settles in cold drops on the telephone wires.

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator.

Tomas Tranströmer Biography.

Born in a working-class Stockholm neighborhood in , Tranströmer has lived a unique life as a poet.

The first English publication of collected poems of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, considered one of the best of his generation in Europe.

Tranströmer's direct language and powerful images made him the most widely translated Scandinavian poet in the English-speaking world in the later 20th century.

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It’s spring in 1827, Beethoven
hoists his death-mask and sails off.

The grindstones are turning in Europe’s windmills.
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They switch off the light and its white shade

glimmers for a moment before dissolving

like a tablet in a glass of darkness.

Then up.
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Tomas Tranströmer () was Sweden's most important poet of the past fifty years.

Men in overalls the same color as earth rise from a ditch.
It's a transitional place, in stalemate, neither country nor city.
Construction cranes on the horizon want to take the big leap,
but the clocks are against it.

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The white butterfly in the park is being read by many.
I love that cabbage-moth as if it were a fluttering corner of truth itself!

At dawn the running crowds set our quiet planet in motion.
Then the park fills with people.

To each one, eight faces polished like jade, for all
situation