From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature - The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer's, as well as one of his first translators, has carefully chosen and translated the finest of Tranströmer's poems to create this cherished and invaluable collection.ContentsIntroduction: "Upward into the Depths" by Robert Bly1From17 Poems (1954)Secrets on the Road (1958)The Half-Finished Heaven (1962)Evening—MorningStormThe Man Awakened by a Song above His RoofTrackKyrieAfter the Attack - Balakirev's Dream (1905)The CoupleAllegroLamentoThe Tree and the Sky - A Winter Night - Dark Shape Swimming - The Half-Finished HeavenNocturne2FromResonance and Footprints (1966)Night Vision (1970)Open and Closed Space - From an African Diary - Morning Bird Songs - Summer Grass - About History - After a Death - Under Pressure - Slow Music - Out in the OpenSolitudeBreathing Space July - The Open Windows26Preludes - The BookcaseOutskirtsGoing with the CurrentTrafficNight Duty - A Few Moments - The Name - Standing Up3From - Pathways (1973)Truth Barriers (1978)Elegy - The Scattered Congregation - Snow-Melting Time, '66Further In - Late May - December Evening, '72Seeing through the Ground - Guard Duty - Along the Lines (Far North)At Funchal (Island of Madeira)Calling HomeCitoyensFor Mats and Laila - After a Long Dry Spell - A Place in the Woods - Street Crossing - Below Freezing - Start of a Late Autumn Novel - From the Winter of 1947The ClearingSchubertiana4FromThe Wild Market Square (1983)For the Living and the Dead (1989)Grief Gondola (1996)From March '79Fire Script - Black Postcards - Romanesque Arches - The Forgotten CommanderVermeerThe Cuckoo - The Kingdom of Uncertainty - Three Stanzas - Two Cities - Island Life, 1860April and Silence - Grief Gondola #2