The Great Enigma

Tomas Tranströmer · 2004 CE · Poem · Nordic · Contemporary

Five short poems and forty-five haiku-like pieces, the last collection of Sweden's great modern lyric poet, written after the stroke that ended his speech. Landscape and silence carry the weight of a mind close to its limits. Nobel laureate in 2011.

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