By Tomas Tranströmer
Fulton's translation from the Swedish is superb: a poet of remarkable fulfillment has with this quantity been born into English. --Guardian
In its gentle soaring among the duties of the social global and the invites of an international of potentially numinous fact, Tomas Tranströmer's poetry allows us to be fortunately sure of our personal uncertainties… just like the animals in Rilke's first sonnet to Orpheus, they're alive to the god's song which "makes a temple deep inside of their listening to. --Seamus Heaney
Tranströmer is a shiny evoker of either landscapes and cityscapes… the author, he says, is 'at an identical time eagle and mole', having a look down or taking a look up from the vantage element most suitable to catching existence earlier than it disappears. Tranströmer is principally strong at memorable moments of panic, uncertainty, displacement, from which the speaker can get well yet which remind him of darknesses and worlds nobody would wish to inhabit for lengthy. --Edwin Morgan, Northwords
About the Author
Tomas Tranströmer received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. He used to be born in 1931 in Stockholm, the place he grew up, yet spent many lengthy summers at the island of Runmarö within the close by archipelago, evoking that panorama in his early paintings, which attracts at the aesthetic culture of Swedish nature poetry. His later poetry is extra own, open and cozy, usually reflecting his huge pursuits: trip, tune, portray, archaeology and traditional sciences. he's Scandinavia's best-known and so much influential modern poet. His books promote hundreds of thousands of copies in Sweden, and his paintings has been translated into 50 languages, with immense or whole versions of his paintings released in 19 languages. Tranströmer began writing poetry whereas on the oppressive Södra Latin Grammar university (its surroundings stuck by way of Ingmar Bergman in Alf Sjöberg s Frenzy, which was once filmed there, the younger Tomas among the pupils). yet he was once devouring books on all matters, specially geography, with day-by-day visits to the neighborhood library, the place he labored his means via lots of the non-fiction cabinets. despite the fact that, this bookish formative years was once shadowed through the struggle, by way of his parents' divorce and the absence of his father, and at 15 he skilled a wintry weather of mental problem. He released his first assortment, 17 Poems, in 1954, on the age of 23. After learning psychology on the collage of Stockholm, he labored at its Psychotechnological Institute, and in 1960 turned a psychologist at Roxtuna, a tender offenders establishment. From the mid-1960s he divided his time among his writing and his paintings as a psychologist, and in 1965 moved together with his relatives to Västerås, the place he spent the remainder of his operating existence. In 1990, a yr after the book of his 10th publication of poems, Tranströmer suffered a stroke, which disadvantaged him of such a lot of his speech and partially inhibited circulation on his right-hand facet. Swedish composers have seeing that written numerous left-hand piano items specially for him to play. due to the fact his stroke, he has released a brief publication of 'autobiographical chapters', thoughts examine Me (1993) and a brand new assortment, the unhappy Gondola (1996), either integrated in Robin Fulton s translation of his Bloodaxe New accumulated Poems (1997). In 2004 he released the nice Enigma, a narrow quantity containing 5 brief poems and a gaggle of forty five even smaller haiku-type poems. those have been further to Robin Fulton's authoritative version New accrued Poems to shape Tranströmer s first accumulated variation to seem within the States, released by means of New instructions in 2006 lower than the name the nice Enigma: New and picked up Poems, that is an identical ebook because the accelerated 2010 united kingdom reprint of latest amassed Poems. Tranströmer has additionally translated different poets into Swedish, together with Robert Bly and Hungary s János Pilinszky. In 1990 he got the Neustadt overseas Prize for Literature. His different awards contain the Bonner Award for Poetry, Germany s Petrarch Prize, the Bellman Prize, the Swedish Academy s Nordic Prize, and the August Prize. In 1997 town of Västerås confirmed a distinct Tranströmer Prize.
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Qxd 6/17/04 10:27 AM Page 18 Here in Katmandu 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 r37 l38 We have climbed the mountain. There’s nothing more to do. It is terrible to come down To the valley Where, amidst many flowers, One thinks of snow, As, formerly, amidst snow, Climbing the mountain, One thought of flowers, Tremulous, ruddy with dew, In the valley. One caught their scent coming down. It is difficult to adjust, once down, To the absence of snow.
It is the lurch and slur the world makes turning. It is the sound of turning, of a wheel Or hand-cranked grinder turning, though more pomp To this, more fiery particles struck off At each revolve; and the last turn reveals The darker side of what was light before. qxd 6/17/04 10:27 AM Page 33 Six stars shine through the dark, and half a moon! Night birds go spiralling upward with a flash Of silvery underwings, silver ascendings, The light of stars and of the moon their light, And water lilies open to the moon, The moon in wrinkles on the water’s face.
I publish of my folk how they have prospered With something in the eyes perhaps inherent, Or great-winged nose, bespeaking an acquaintance, Not casual and not recent, with a monster, Citing, as an example of some courage, That aunt, long gone, who kept one in a bird cage Thirty-odd years in shape of a green parrot, Nor overcame her fears, yet missed no feeding, Thrust in the crumbs with thimbles on her fingers. I had an uncle, long of arm and hairy, Who seldom spoke in any lady’s hearing Lest that his tongue should light on aught unseemly, Yet he could treat most kindly with us children Touching that beast, wholly imaginary, Which, hunting once, his hounds had got the wind of.