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9781555976392 English 1555976395 In a fit of recklessness I'm sending the book by air mail so you won't have to wait till Christmas. As you know, literary life in Sweden is played out in the daily papers and where well-known authors are concerned you get reviewed the same day the book comes out. In other words my sentence has been pronounced. In the most influential paper, Dagens Nyheter, one of the younger critics wrote that I was unalterably the same, somewhat worse now however than in my first book from 1954. He praised me too, but for the initiated it was immediately clear that I've been knocked off my pedestal. It's like in China-if Chou suddenly stands number 5 after Mao instead of number 3, bit means that Chou is half dead. The expert understands that. However, the stupid general public* has bought my book (1100 copies were sold the first two weeks).... Thank you for your book! I have been eating it up like those wonderful dates that come with pictures of camels on the package-in one of your earlier lives you were a camel-(that's why you're able to go for miles through the desert) (that's why you know where the oases are-cf your Monica!) Anyway the book is very good, and I'm enjoying it tremendously. As I read in it I say, "Well, look at all the things I haven't done yet!" So it reminds me of poems I might write sometime in the future, so it's a future book, the kind I like best. You do some very strange things in this book. I translated for Carolyn [Bly] your poem about walking in the woods, and evil shaking his head across a desk, and the modern building with so much glass, and finally the airport scene. She was startled and moved. And with her true sense, which never fails, excited by something new, that is moving forward, just at the edge of the forest. The trains that meet in the (station of this) poem come from such long distances, each of them! That is what is good! One train still has snow on it, another one has a palm leaf caught in the undercarriage-Oh you're a bloody genius!... Book jacket., One day in the spring of 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtr�mer. When Bly returned home that evening with a copy of The Half-Finished Heaven , he found a letter waiting for him from its author. With this remarkable coincidence as its beginning, what followed was a vibrant correspondence between two poets who would become essential contributors to global literature. Airmail collects more than 290 letters, written from 1964 until 1990, when Transtr�mer suffered a stroke that has left him partially paralyzed and diminished his capacity to write. Across their correspondence, the two poets are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War, European and American elections, and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. Airmail also illuminates the work of translation as Bly began to render Transtr�mer's poetry into English and Transtr�mer began to translate Bly's poetry into Swedish. Their collaboration quickly turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years. Insightful, brilliant, and often funny, Airmail provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each other's particular genius., The illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas TranstromerOne day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer. When Bly returned home that evening with a copy of Transtromer's "The Half-Finished Heaven," he found a letter waiting for him from its author.With this remarkable coincidence as its beginning, what followed was a vibrant correspondence between two poets who would become essential contributors to global literature. "Airmail" collects more than 290 letters, written from 1964 until 1990, when Transtromer suffered a stroke that has left him partially paralyzed and diminished his capacity to write. Across their correspondence, the two poets are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War, European and American elections, and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. "Airmail" also illuminates the work of translation as Bly began to render Transtromer's poetry into English and Transtromer began to translate Bly's poetry into Swedish. Their collaboration quickly turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years.Insightful, brilliant, and often funny, "Airmail" provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each other's particular genius. This publication marks the first time letters by Bly and Transtromer have been made available in the United States.", The illuminating letters of the National Book Award-winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Transtr�merThe illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Transtr�mer One day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtr�mer. When Bly returned home that evening with a copy of Transtr�mer's The Half-Finished Heaven , he found a letter waiting for him from its author. With this remarkable coincidence as its beginning, what followed was a vibrant correspondence between two poets who would become essential contributors to global literature. Airmail collects more than 290 letters, written from 1964 until 1990, when Transtr�mer suffered a stroke that has left him partially paralyzed and diminished his capacity to write. Across their correspondence, the two poets are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War, European and American elections, and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. Airmail also illuminates the work of translation as Bly began to render Transtr�mer's poetry into English and Transtr�mer began to translate Bly's poetry into Swedish. Their collaboration quickly turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years. Insightful, brilliant, and often funny, Airmail provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each other's particular genius. This publication marks the first time letters by Bly and Transtr�mer have been made available in the United States.
9781555976392 English 1555976395 In a fit of recklessness I'm sending the book by air mail so you won't have to wait till Christmas. As you know, literary life in Sweden is played out in the daily papers and where well-known authors are concerned you get reviewed the same day the book comes out. In other words my sentence has been pronounced. In the most influential paper, Dagens Nyheter, one of the younger critics wrote that I was unalterably the same, somewhat worse now however than in my first book from 1954. He praised me too, but for the initiated it was immediately clear that I've been knocked off my pedestal. It's like in China-if Chou suddenly stands number 5 after Mao instead of number 3, bit means that Chou is half dead. The expert understands that. However, the stupid general public* has bought my book (1100 copies were sold the first two weeks).... Thank you for your book! I have been eating it up like those wonderful dates that come with pictures of camels on the package-in one of your earlier lives you were a camel-(that's why you're able to go for miles through the desert) (that's why you know where the oases are-cf your Monica!) Anyway the book is very good, and I'm enjoying it tremendously. As I read in it I say, "Well, look at all the things I haven't done yet!" So it reminds me of poems I might write sometime in the future, so it's a future book, the kind I like best. You do some very strange things in this book. I translated for Carolyn [Bly] your poem about walking in the woods, and evil shaking his head across a desk, and the modern building with so much glass, and finally the airport scene. She was startled and moved. And with her true sense, which never fails, excited by something new, that is moving forward, just at the edge of the forest. The trains that meet in the (station of this) poem come from such long distances, each of them! That is what is good! One train still has snow on it, another one has a palm leaf caught in the undercarriage-Oh you're a bloody genius!... Book jacket., One day in the spring of 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtr�mer. When Bly returned home that evening with a copy of The Half-Finished Heaven , he found a letter waiting for him from its author. With this remarkable coincidence as its beginning, what followed was a vibrant correspondence between two poets who would become essential contributors to global literature. Airmail collects more than 290 letters, written from 1964 until 1990, when Transtr�mer suffered a stroke that has left him partially paralyzed and diminished his capacity to write. Across their correspondence, the two poets are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War, European and American elections, and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. Airmail also illuminates the work of translation as Bly began to render Transtr�mer's poetry into English and Transtr�mer began to translate Bly's poetry into Swedish. Their collaboration quickly turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years. Insightful, brilliant, and often funny, Airmail provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each other's particular genius., The illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas TranstromerOne day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer. When Bly returned home that evening with a copy of Transtromer's "The Half-Finished Heaven," he found a letter waiting for him from its author.With this remarkable coincidence as its beginning, what followed was a vibrant correspondence between two poets who would become essential contributors to global literature. "Airmail" collects more than 290 letters, written from 1964 until 1990, when Transtromer suffered a stroke that has left him partially paralyzed and diminished his capacity to write. Across their correspondence, the two poets are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War, European and American elections, and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. "Airmail" also illuminates the work of translation as Bly began to render Transtromer's poetry into English and Transtromer began to translate Bly's poetry into Swedish. Their collaboration quickly turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years.Insightful, brilliant, and often funny, "Airmail" provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each other's particular genius. This publication marks the first time letters by Bly and Transtromer have been made available in the United States.", The illuminating letters of the National Book Award-winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Transtr�merThe illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Transtr�mer One day in spring 1964, the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtr�mer. When Bly returned home that evening with a copy of Transtr�mer's The Half-Finished Heaven , he found a letter waiting for him from its author. With this remarkable coincidence as its beginning, what followed was a vibrant correspondence between two poets who would become essential contributors to global literature. Airmail collects more than 290 letters, written from 1964 until 1990, when Transtr�mer suffered a stroke that has left him partially paralyzed and diminished his capacity to write. Across their correspondence, the two poets are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War, European and American elections, and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. Airmail also illuminates the work of translation as Bly began to render Transtr�mer's poetry into English and Transtr�mer began to translate Bly's poetry into Swedish. Their collaboration quickly turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years. Insightful, brilliant, and often funny, Airmail provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each other's particular genius. This publication marks the first time letters by Bly and Transtr�mer have been made available in the United States.