The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Transtromer

Mystical, versatile and sad, the poems (in verse and prose) of Tomas Transtromer have made him Sweden´s best-known living writer. Robert Bly (Eating the Honey of Words, etc.) has long championed Transtr mer; his latest effort in this line is The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Transtr mer. Here are the dream and nightmare images that influenced U.S. poetry in the ´60s, where "Moths settle down on the pane: / small pale telegrams from the world." Here, too, are the brief, haunting works of more recent years: "I am carried inside/ my own shadow like a violin/ in its black case." (Nov.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.