New Collected Poems by Transtromer, Tomas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Description Title Page Table of Contents Foreword 17 POEMS

Prelude Autumnal Archipelago Five Stanzas to Thoreau Gogol Sailor’s Yarn Strophe and Counter-Strophe Agitated Meditation The Stones Context Morning Approach There is Peace in the Surging Prow Midnight Turning Point Song Elegy Epilogue

SECRETS ON THE WAY

Solitary Swedish Houses The Man who Awoke with Singing over the Roofs Weather Picture The Four Temperaments Caprichos Siesta Izmir at Three O’Clock Secrets on the Way Tracks Kyrie A Man from Benin Balakirev’s Dream After an Attack The Journey’s Formulae

THE HALF-FINISHED HEAVEN

The Couple The Tree and the Sky Face to Face Ringing Through the Wood November with Nuances of Noble Fur The Journey C Major Noon Thaw When We Saw the Islands Again From the Hill-Top Espresso The Palace Syros In the Nile Delta A Dark Swimming Figure Lament Allegro The Half-Finished Heaven Nocturne A Winter Night

BELLS AND TRACKS

Portrait with Commentary Lisbon From an African Diary Crests Hommages Winter’s Formulae Morning Birds About History Alone On the Outskirts of Work After Someone’s Death Oklahoma Summer Plain Downpour over the Interior Under Pressure Open and Closed Spaces An Artist in the North In the Open Slow Music

SEEING IN THE DARK

The Name A Few Minutes Breathing Space July By the River Outskirts Traffic Night Duty The Open Window Preludes Upright The Bookcase

PATHS

To Friends behind a Frontier From the Thaw of 1966 Sketch in October Further In The Outpost Along the Radius Looking through the Ground December Evening 1972 The Dispersed Congregation Late May Elegy

BALTICS

Baltics

THE TRUTH-BARRIER

Citoyens The Crossing-Place The Clearing How the Late Autumn Night Novel Begins To Mats and Laila From the Winter of 1947 Schubertiana The Gallery Below Zero The Boat and the Village The Black Mountains Homewards After a Long Drought A Place in the Forest Funchal

THE WILD MARKET-PLACE

Brief Pause in the Organ Recital From March 1979 Memories Look at Me Winter’s Gaze The Station Answers to Letters Icelandic Hurricane The Blue Wind-Flowers The Blue House Satellite Eyes Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Black Picture-Postcards Fire-Jottings Many Steps Postludium Dream Seminar Codex Carillon Molokai

FOR LIVING AND DEAD

The Forgotten Captain Six Winters The Nightingale in Badelunda Early May Stanzas Berceuse Streets in Shanghai Deep in Europe Leaflet The Indoors is Endless Vermeer Romanesque Arches Epigram Female Portrait, 19th Century Medieval Motif Air Mail Madrigal Golden Wasp

THE SAD GONDOLA

April and Silence National Insecurity A Page of the Night-Book The Sad Gondola Landscape with Suns November in the Former DDR From July 1990 The Cuckoo Three Stanzas Like Being a Child Two Cities The Light Streams In Night Journey Haiku From the Island, 1860 Silence Midwinter A Sketch from 1844

THE GREAT ENIGMA

Eagle Rock Façades November Snow Is Falling Signatures Haiku

APPENDIX : PRISON

Prison

MEMORIES LOOK AT ME

Memories Museums Primary School The War Libraries Grammar School Exorcism Latin

Acknowledgements Index of titles and first lines Biographical note Airmail manuscript Copyright

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