First published by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm, Sweden

Published in the English language by arrangement with Bonnier Rights, Stockholm, Sweden

Translation Copyright © 2015 by Patty Crane

FIRST EDITION

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tranströmer, Tomas, 1931–2015.

  [Poems. Selections. English]

  Bright scythe: selected poems by Tomas Tranströmer / translated by Patty Crane.—First edition.

       pages cm

ISBN 978-1-941411-22-3 (ebook)

  I. Crane, Patty, translator. II. Title.

  PT9876.3.R3A2 2015

  839.71'74—dc23

2015017830

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Interior by Kirkby Gann Tittle & Kristen Radtke

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