Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer
Reading Date: Thursday, November 6, 1975
Introduction-2007
by Lois Shelton
"The Cable Ship"-2008
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
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
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
Tranströmer, Tomas. Windows & Stones. Trans. May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.
"Preludes"-2012
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
Tranströmer, Tomas. Baltics. Trans. Samuel Charters. Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1975.
"The Forest-Clearing"-2015
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Tranströmer, Tomas. Selected Poems. Trans. Robin Fulton. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1981.
"Citoyens"-2016
Tranströmer, Tomas. Selected Poems. Trans. Robin Fulton. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1981.
"Funchal"-2017
Translated by Samuel Charters. Uncollected.
Question and Answer Session-2018
Some questions are inaudible.
"My Apartment"-2013
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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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