{"product_id":"the-blue-house-tomas-transtrmer-9781556596858","title":"The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Transtrer","description":"\u003cb\u003eNobel Prize-winner Tomas Transtrer 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 Transtrer 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 Transtrer'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 Transtrer'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, Transtrer's poems act as a telephoto lens, granting us reinvigorated access to the world we live in.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tomas Transtrer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1556596855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556596858\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.69w x 1.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/20\/2023","brand":"Tomas Transtrer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44129019035903,"sku":"9781556596858","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ac9c193-35dc-4394-b053-4a7e804353f0.jpg?v=1687461647","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-blue-house-tomas-transtrmer-9781556596858","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}