{"product_id":"the-blue-house-collected-works-of-tomas-transtr-er-hardcover","title":"The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Transtrer - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTomas Transtrer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePatty Crane\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNobel Prize-winner Tomas Transtrer explores the personal and political, the ecological and existential, through poems that expand like the widening scope of a telephoto lens.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith slow strokes and subtle, rich lines, The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Transtrer is evidence of a Nobel Prize-winning poet tracing the world with his pen. A stunning testament to an illustrious career, The Blue House gathers poems and writings from Transtrer's fourteen collections into a single book. Original Swedish sits alongside their English translations as Patty Crane translates his words into revelatory language acute in the understanding of human change and loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSubtle in politics and exact in imagery, the poems of The Blue House range from agile haiku to cinematic prose. Social phenomena are observed in rich detail--a \"dictator's bust\" presiding over a train car of doomed passengers--and the collection is propelled by empathy and curiosity. Under Transtrer's watchful eye, no subject is overlooked: Milij Balakirev, the Russian composer; Nils Dacke, the Swedish peasant who led a rebellion against the king; and him, the stranger who forgets his name by the roadside. From the personal to the political to the existential, Transtrer's poems act as a telephoto lens, granting us reinvigorated access to the world we live in.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNobel Laureate Tomas Transtrer was born in Stockholm in 1931, and studied literature and psychology at the University of Stockholm. A poet and psychologist who worked with disadvantaged youth, Transtrer authored numerous full length poetry collections translated into more than fifty languages. He died in Stockholm in 2015.\u003cb\u003eAbout the Translator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatty Crane is a translator and poet from Cape Cod. Her translations of Tomas Transtrer have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, American \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her first book-length Transtrer translation, \u003ci\u003eBright Scythe\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Sarabande Books (2015). Crane spent three years living in Sweden to work with Transtrer and his wife, Monica, to translate and study his work, and, in 2019 received a MacDowell fellowship to continue translating Transtrer's poetry. She currently splits her time between Massachusetts and Vermont.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 536\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.81 x 9.13 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758998061344,"sku":"9781556596858","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d27a42b7f2ad5818f937d6b76abebeb8.webp?v=1780140739","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-blue-house-collected-works-of-tomas-transtr-er-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}