{"product_id":"9780811220170","title":"The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe collected poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Transtromer, available in this comprehensive edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003eIn day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world\u003cbr\u003e as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has now attained a prominence comparable to that of Pablo Neruda's during his lifetime. But if Neruda is blazing fire, Transtromer is expanding ice. \u003cem\u003eThe Great Enigma: New Collected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e gathers all the poems Tomas Transtromer has published, from his distinctive first collection in 1954, \u003cem\u003e17 Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, through his epic poem \u003cem\u003eBaltics\u003c\/em\u003e (\"my most consistent attempt to write music\"), and \u003cem\u003eThe Sad Gondola\u003c\/em\u003e, published six years after he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1990 (\"I am carried in my shadow \/ like a violin \/ in its black case.\"), to his most recent slim book, \u003cem\u003eThe Great Enigma\u003c\/em\u003e, published in Sweden in 2004. Also included is his prose-memoir \u003cem\u003eMemories Look at Me\u003c\/em\u003e, containing keys into his intensely spiritual, metaphysical poetry (like the brief passage of insect collecting on Runmaro Island when he was a teenager). Firmly rooted in the natural world, his work falls between dream and dream; it probes \"the great unsolved love\" with the opening up, through subtle modulations, of \"concrete words.\"","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079714357488,"sku":"9780811220170","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811220170_p0.jpg?v=1763739649","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811220170","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}