Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer
Reading Date: Tuesday, February 26, 1974
Introduction-2562
by Lois Shelton
"Tracks"-2563
Performed in Swedish and English.
Annotation:
Tranströmer, Tomas. Windows & Stones: Selected Poems. Trans. May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.
"Further In"-2564
Differs from collected version.
Annotation:
Tranströmer, Tomas. The Half-Finished Heaven. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2001.
"Seeing Through the Ground"-2565
Tranströmer, Tomas. The Half-Finished Heaven. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2001.
"Guard Duty"-2566
Tranströmer, Tomas. Windows & Stones: Selected Poems. Trans. May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.
"Out in the Open"-2567
Tranströmer, Tomas. 20 Poems. Trans. Robert Bly. Madison, MN: Seventies Press, 1970.
"Baltics"-2568
Tranströmer, Tomas. Baltics. Trans. Samuel Charters. Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1975.
Question and Answer Session-2569
Some questions are inaudible.
"Längs radien"-2570
Includes brief comments from the audience and the performance of "Längs radien" ["Along the Lines"] in Swedish.
"Along the Lines"-2571
Differs from collected version, which bears the title "Along the Lines (Far North)."
Annotation:
Tranströmer, Tomas. The Half-Finished Heaven. Ed. and trans. Robert Bly. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2001.
"Standing Up"-2572
Tranströmer, Tomas. Night Vision. Trans. Robert Bly. Northwood Narrows, NH: Lillabulero Press, 1971.
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Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
In his first appearance at the Poetry Center, Tomas Tranströmer reads widely from his work as translated by May Swenson, Robert Bly, and Samuel Charters. Given primarily in English, the reading opens with a bilingual performance of "Spår" <"Tracks"> in Swedish and English.
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