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Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Tranströmer

Tranströmer, Tomas
Title: Tomas Tranströmer
Reading Date: Thursday, November 6, 1975

Introduction-2007

Description:

by Lois Shelton

"The Cable Ship"-2008

Description:

by Harry Martinson. Performed in Swedish and English.
Annotation:

Martinson, Harry. "The Cable Ship." Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.

"Landscape"-2009

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by Harry Martinson.
Annotation:

Martinson, Harry. "Landscape." Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.

"The Half-Finished Heaven"-2010

Description:

Performed in Swedish and English.
Annotation:

Tranströmer, Tomas. "The Half-Finished Heaven." Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.

"An Artist in the North"-2011

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Tranströmer, Tomas. Windows & Stones. Trans. May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.

"Preludes"-2012

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Tranströmer, Tomas. "Preludes." Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.

Parts IV-VI of "Baltics"-2014

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Tranströmer, Tomas. Baltics. Trans. Samuel Charters. Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1975.

"The Forest-Clearing"-2015

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Differs from published version.
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Tranströmer, Tomas. Selected Poems. Trans. Robin Fulton. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1981.

"Citoyens"-2016

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Tranströmer, Tomas. Selected Poems. Trans. Robin Fulton. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1981.

"Funchal"-2017

Description:

Translated by Samuel Charters. Uncollected.

Question and Answer Session-2018

Description:

Some questions are inaudible.

"My Apartment"-2013

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Reading Date: Thursday, November 6, 1975
Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium

Tomas Tranströmer reads widely from his work; he also reads two poems by fellow Swedish poet Harry Martinson. Of note, Martinson received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974, the year before this reading. Thirty-six years later, in 2011, Tranströmer himself was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The reading includes the performance of two poems in Swedish, and ends with a rich and extensive question and answer session.

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