Tomas Transtr枚mer (Author of The Great Enigma)

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Tomas Transtr枚mer

Born

in Stockholm, Sweden

April 15, 1931

Died

March 26, 2015

Website

Genre

Poetry, Short Stories, Memoir

Influences

Ragnar Thoursie, T.S. Eliot,

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His poetry, building on Modernism, Expressionism, and Surrealism, contains powerful imagery concerned with issues of fragmentation and isolation. 鈥淗e has perfected a particular kind of epiphanic lyric, often in quatrains, in which nature is the active, energizing subject, and the self (if the self is present at all) is the object,鈥� notes critic Katie Peterson in the Boston Review.

Critic and poet Tom Sleigh observed, in his Interview with a Ghost (2006), that 鈥淭ranstr枚mer鈥檚 poems imagine the spaces that the deep then inhabits, like ground water gushing up into a newly dug well.鈥�

His honors include the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, the Aftonbladets Literary Prize, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the ...more

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	The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtr枚mer, Robin Fulton (Translator) 4.28 avg rating — 1,285 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Half-Finished Heaven by Tomas Transtr枚mer, Robert Bly (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 991 ratings — published 1962 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memories Look at Me by Tomas Transtr枚mer, Robin Fulton (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 735 ratings — published 1993 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dikter och prosa 1954鈥�2004 4.14 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems, 1954-1986 by Tomas Transtr枚mer, Robert Hass (Editor), May Swenson (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 484 ratings — published 1981 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deleted World by Tomas Transtr枚mer, Robin Robertson (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sorrow Gondola by Tomas Transtr枚mer, Michael McGriff (Translator), Mikaela Grassl (Translation) 3.71 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1996 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samlade dikter: 1954鈥�1996 4.15 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baltics 3.88 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 1974 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bright Scythe: Selected Poems by Tomas Transtr枚mer by Tomas Transtr枚mer, David Wojahn (Introduction), Patty Crane (Translation) 4.25 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Tomas Transtr枚mer (?)

“In the middle of life, death comes
to take your measurements. The visit
is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit
is being sewn on the sly.”
― Tomas Transtr枚mer, The Deleted World

tags: death, poetry

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“I am carried in my shadow
like a violin
in its black case”
― Tomas Transtr枚mer, For the Living and the Dead

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“Every person is a half-opened door
leading to a room for everyone.”
― Tomas Transtromer

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