Tomas Tranströmer (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Tomas Tranströmer’s reputation rests primarily on his poetry. Minnena, ser mig (1993; Memories Look at Me: A Memoir, in For the Living and the Dead, 1995), prepared for Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, offers the poet’s own insights into his work. In 2001, a volume of correspondence between Tranströmer and Robert Bly was published as Air Mail: Brev, 1964-1990.
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In part because he is essentially a poet of images—an aspect of poetry which can be conveyed virtually without loss...
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