The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer

"A poem by Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer is one in which “consciousness can take hold of the world/ like a hand clutching a sun-warmed stone.” Tranströmer’s grasp is gentle, but startling surprises surface from the depths in his hand. This book is the culmination of a years-long endeavor by Patty Crane to render all of Tranströmer’s work in an English as subtle and sensitive as the poet’s original Swedish, in which “The shadows here are deep/ without a voice.” There are many versions of this titanic poet in English, but this one should become the standard – Crane’s translation is the Tranströmer to read."