Cover of Selected Poems, 1954-1986

Selected Poems, 1954-1986

Tomas TranstrOmer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private citizen in the second half of the twentieth century.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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