The Deleted World: Poems
By Tomas Tranströmer and Robin Robertson
4/5
()
About this ebook
A short selection of haunting, meditative poems from the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature
Tomas Tranströmer can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water, the boundaries between man and nature, wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer, his skepticism about humanity is continually challenged by the implacable renewing power of the natural world. His poems are epiphanies rooted in experience: spare, luminous meditations that his extraordinary images split open—exposing something sudden, mysterious, and unforgettable.
Tomas Tranströmer
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."
Read more from Tomas Tranströmer
The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBright Scythe Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to The Deleted World
Related ebooks
Here at Last is Love: Selected Poems of Dunstan Thompson Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDruids Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nice Weather: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Niagara River Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poems (1913) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsC. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, Revised Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlackbird and Wolf: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Asymmetry: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5New Selected Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5100 Poems to Break Your Heart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dome Of Many Colored Glass: “Everything mortal has moments immortal” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNothing is Lost: Selected Poems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems - Bilingual Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Village Life: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Selected Poems, 1968-1996 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Address Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Averno: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oranges and Snow: Selected Poems of Milan Djordjević Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Life of Images: Selected Prose Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Seven Ages Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5New Selected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStreets in Their Own Ink: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Haiku by Toshiyuki Ihira Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry Of Wallace Stevens: "A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman." Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When We Were Birds: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dream Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letters to a Young Poet (Rediscovered Books): With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related categories
Reviews for The Deleted World
22 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Concrete poems full of sensations and strength. I recommend the book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I found this short book of poems wonderful. I loved the imagery in particular. My favorites were "Autumnal Archipelago", "The Couple", "A Winter Night", "Out in the Open" and "From March 1979" (though there were no poems that I didn't like!).
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5More, please!I wish the publisher had been more generous with the selections included. This is a very thin volume.It would perhaps be understandable if this were a chapbook and Tranströmer was a young unknown. But with the low number of selections - and the general amount of white space on the pages - it's quite disappointing for a senior poet who has recently been awarded the Nobel Prize.
Book preview
The Deleted World - Tomas Tranströmer
INTRODUCTION
by Robin Robertson
Every October for decades, a group of reporters and photographers from all over the world has gathered in the stairwell of an apartment block in Stockholm, waiting to hear if the poet upstairs has finally won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The poet’s wife, Monica, would bring them tea and biscuits while they stood around—but they would always leave, around lunchtime, as the news came in that the prize had gone to someone else. Annually, the name of Tomas Tranströmer came up, and with every year one felt a growing sense that he would never receive this highest literary honor from his own country. The vigil is over now, with the wonderful, almost unbelievable news of October