Tomas Transtromer














Tomas Transtromer, the Swedish poet, has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here's my favorite of his poems:
Breathing Space July
The man who lies on his back under huge treesis also up in them. He branches out into thousands of tiny branches.He sways back and forth,he sits in a catapult that hurtles forward in slow motion.
The man who stands down at the dock screw up his eyes against the water.Ocean docks get older faster than men.They have silver-grey posts and boulders in their gut.The dazzling light drives straight in.
The man who spends the whole day in an open boatmoving over the luminous bayswill fall asleep at last inside the shade of his blue lampas the islands crawl like huge moths over the globe.

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Published on October 06, 2011 04:15
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