Deleted World

A short selection of haunting meditative poems from the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in LiteratureTomas Tranströmer can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden''s most important poet but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting suggestive image Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water the boundaries between man and nature wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer his skepticism about humanity is continually challenged by the implacable renewing power of the natural world. His poems are epiphanies rooted in experience: spare luminous meditations that his extraordinary images split open―exposing something sudden mysterious and unforgettable.