In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone. Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has now attained a prominence comparable to that of Pablo Neruda's during his lifetime. But if Neruda is blazing fire, Transtromer is expanding ice. The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems gathers all the poems Tomas Transtromer has published, from his distinctive first collection in 1954, 17 Poems, through his epic poem Baltics ("my most consistent attempt to write music"), and The Sad Gondola, published six years after he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1990 ("I am carried in my shadow / like a violin / in its black case."), to his most recent slim book, The Great Enigma, published in Sweden in 2004. Also included is his prose-memoir Memories Look at Me, containing keys into his intensely spiritual, metaphysical poetry (like the brief passage of insect collecting on Runmaro Island when he was a teenager). Firmly rooted in the natural world, his work falls between dream and dream; it probes "the great unsolved love" with the opening up, through subtle modulations, of "concrete words."
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As I was wandering through the internet wondering what my next read would be I came across an article about Tomas Transtromer who recently was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. With the few reviews that were posted and my genuine interest in this collection of poems translated by Fulton, I set out to purchase this book.
Transtromer's concise eloquence into the depths of the human soul has provided a window so that we can look outward from within to glance reality in a fresh hue, a rare beauty. The very depth of my soul has been deeply stirred and each poem I render alive carries me through my 'wavering' world.
Some of his poems reflect his internal struggle with the restrictions placed on his body, after his debilitating stroke, that dark place for which he wishes 'to be free' from, placing a foreboding undertone within the lines of his poems. However, what I truly love about his poems is that he is able to lift himself (us) above and beyond this dark place so that we can truthfully see our reflection in the mirror cast in the shadows of the rushing waters...not an easy task for any writer...
For those who decide to read this collection of poems by Transtromer I hope they will move you as it has for me.
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