An expanded edition by Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer, translated by award-winning poet Robert Bly
The Half-Finished Heaven
Selected Poems
- “The Half-Finished Heaven provides a wonderful respite for world-weary readers as well as a lovely introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Tranströmer.”—The Washington Post
Every person is a half-open door
leading to a room for everyone.
The endless field under us.
Water glitters between the trees.
The lake is a window into the earth.
—from “The Half-Finished Heaven”
leading to a room for everyone.
The endless field under us.
Water glitters between the trees.
The lake is a window into the earth.
—from “The Half-Finished Heaven”
Tomas Tranströmer’s celebrated career earned him a place among the twentieth century’s essential global voices. Translated into more than fifty languages, his poetry draws readers to its power and resonance, its shaping of landscapes both outer and interior, stark and yet alive to the luminous. In 2011, Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.”
National Book Award-winning poet and renowned translator Robert Bly first introduced American readers to Tranströmer’s poetry in his seminal English translations, all of which are collected here for the first time in this expanded edition. With an updated introduction and fourteen additional poems, The Half-Finished Heaven presents the best of Tranströmer’s poetry in one indispensable volume.
National Book Award-winning poet and renowned translator Robert Bly first introduced American readers to Tranströmer’s poetry in his seminal English translations, all of which are collected here for the first time in this expanded edition. With an updated introduction and fourteen additional poems, The Half-Finished Heaven presents the best of Tranströmer’s poetry in one indispensable volume.
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About the Author
Credit: Monica Tranströmer
Credit: Monica Tranströmer
Praise
- “To read [The Half-Finished Heaven] in 2017 is like seeing the after-image of a great work. . . . Eerie and beautiful and a little bit sad.”—John Freeman, Literary Hub
