The Half-finished Heaven: Selected Poems - Softcover

"The poems of Tomas Transtroemer are points of entry 'upward into / the depths' of an imagination, a spirit that is regeneratively inventive, capacious, unillusioned, undaunted, admirable . . . This extraordinary collection of work by one of Sweden's greatest contemporary poets presents a rich sampling of verse published during the past five decades."--The New York Times Book Review "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 Transtroemer. . . . Translator Robert Bly . . . masterfully renders Transtroemer's work. . . . Transtroemer's perspective is refreshing, the verbal equivalent of a brisk wind or a cold stream on a hot day."--Washington Post "In this new updated version of his selected poems we find more than a dozen new translations from Transtroemer's strange and blue-ish work. To read these versions in 2017 is like seeing the after-image of a great work. They are eerie and beautiful and a little bit sad, like so much of Transtroemer's poetry. Heaven it seems will always be half-finished."--John Freeman, Literary Hub

A handpicked selection of the best-loved poems of Tomas Transtromer - winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mystical, versatile and sad, the poems (in verse and prose) have earned him international acclaim. A broad retrospective of his work, The Half-Finished Heaven is an excellent English-language introduction to this notable Swedish poet. Widely praised in the US upon publication, it's a book that's not to be missed.