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The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
Den stora gåtan
Tomas Tranströmer (born 1931)
Translated by Robin Fulton
English editions
In EnglishThe Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
New Directions · United States · 2006 · Paperback · 262 pages
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Most of this slim book is made up of short sequences in the haiku form, seventeen syllables pairing an image from nature with a thought about human existence, alongside a handful of longer poems. Forests where God lives without money, a magpie zigzagging across fields, a man sitting like a beached rowing boat: plain, compressed pictures through which mortality, life's mysteries and the strangeness of the world come into view.
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About the book
- Form
- Poetry
- Length
- 87 pages in the original
- Genres
- Nature (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2004 by Albert Bonniers Förlag
- Author's age
- 73 when first published
- ISBN
9789100103101 (original)
9780811216722 (New Directions, United States)
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