Research Catalog

Title

The half-finished heaven : the best poems of Tomas Tranströmer / chosen and translated by Robert Bly.

Author

Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931-2015

Publication

Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2001.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Bly, Robert
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xxi, 97 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has a prestigious worldwide reputation-- many expect that he will someday win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Transtromer's, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Transtromer's poems to create this collection.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English

Alternative Title

• Poems.
• Best poems of Tomas Tranströmer

Subject

Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931-2015 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Upward into the depths / by Robert Bly. -- 1. From 17 poems (1954), Secrets on the road (1958), [and] The half-finished heaven (1962): Evening, morning -- Storm -- The man awakened by a song above his roof -- Track -- Kyrie -- After the attack -- Balakirev's dream (1905) -- The couple -- Allegro -- Lamento -- The tree and the sky -- A winter night -- Dark shape swimming -- The half-finished heaven -- Nocturne. -- 2. From Resonance and footprints (1966) [and] Night vision (1970) -- Open and closed space -- From an African diary (1963) -- Morning bird songs -- Summer grass -- About history -- After a death -- Under pressure -- Slow music -- Out in the open -- Solitude -- Breathing space July -- The open window -- Preludes -- The bookcase -- Outskirts -- Going with the current -- Traffic -- Night duty -- A few moments -- The name -- Standing up. -- 3. From Pathways (1973) [and] Truth barriers (1978) -- Elegy -- The scattered congregation -- Snow-melting time, '66 -- Further in -- Late May -- December evening, '72 -- Seeing through the ground -- Guard duty -- Along the lines (Far North) -- At Funchal (Island of Madeira) -- Calling Home -- Citoyens -- For Mats and Laila -- After a long dry spell -- A place in the woods -- Street crossing -- Below freezing -- Start of a late Autumn novel -- From the Winter of 1947 -- The clearing -- Schubertiana. -- From The wild market square (1983), For the living and the dead (1989), [and] Grief gondola (1996) -- From March '79 -- Fire script -- Black postcards -- Romanesque arches -- The forgotten commander -- Vermeer -- The cuckoo -- The kingdom of uncertainty -- Three stanzas -- Two cities -- Island life, 1860 -- April and silence -- Grief gondola, #2.

ISBN

1555973515

LCCN

^^2001088643

OCLC

• 48181631
• SCSB-11447954

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library