{"product_id":"blue-house-collected-works-of-tomas-transtromer","title":"Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer","description":"\u003cb\u003eNobel Prize-winner Tomas Tranströmer explores the personal and political, the ecological and existential, through poems that expand like the widening scope of a telephoto lens.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith slow strokes and subtle, rich lines, The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer is evidence of a Nobel Prize-winning poet tracing the world with his pen. A stunning testament to an illustrious career, The Blue House gathers poems and writings from Tranströmer's fourteen collections into a single book. Original Swedish sits alongside their English translations as Patty Crane translates his words into revelatory language acute in the understanding of human change and loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSubtle in politics and exact in imagery, the poems of The Blue House range from agile haiku to cinematic prose. Social phenomena are observed in rich detail--a \"dictator's bust\" presiding over a train car of doomed passengers--and the collection is propelled by empathy and curiosity. Under Tranströmer's watchful eye, no subject is overlooked: Milij Balakirev, the Russian composer; Nils Dacke, the Swedish peasant who led a rebellion against the king; and him, the stranger who forgets his name by the roadside. From the personal to the political to the existential, Tranströmer's poems act as a telephoto lens, granting us reinvigorated access to the world we live in.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tomas Tranströmer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793322213418,"sku":"9781556596858","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/blue-house-collected-works-of-tomas-transtromer-1544804.jpg?v=1762150760","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/blue-house-collected-works-of-tomas-transtromer","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}