Tomas Transtromer (1931-2015) is one of Sweden's most important writers. He is also one of the most influential figures in contemporary world literature. His career spanned fifty years, and thirteen collections of poetry, which include 170 poems. He also wrote a short memoir of his youth, titled Memories Look at Me (1993). Transtromer's poems have been translated into more than 60 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Persian and Malayalam. Celebrated as a poet's poet, Tomas Transtromer is greatly admired by such literary luminaries as Robert Bly, Robin Robertson, Adonis and Bei Dao. Some of his most widely read poems include: 2The Sad Gondola3, 2Vermeer3, 2Schubertiana3 and 2The Outpost3, while his extended work, Baltics (1974), remains a masterpiece of 20th century literature. Among the array of awards that he has received are the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1990), the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize (1991), the Griffin Poetry Prize (2007), and the Nobel Prize for Literature (2011). In this first book-length study of Tomas Transtromer's work, in English, Lim Lee Ching takes on the massive task of scrutinizing all of Transtromer's poems. The Works of Tomas Transtromer deals with the wide variety of ideas and issues that the poet deals with over the course of his long career, in a manner that befits their gravitas. This book is a return to the critical tradition; it provides a poem-by-poem approach to the Transtromer corpus. The poems maintain a nexus of ideas that is marked by a kind of constancy in the face of evolving intellectual tastes. The Works of Tomas Transtromer focuses on the poetry's qualities of quiet persistence and consistency, distilling for the reader crucial lessons about the possibilities of sensible conduct in a culture that privileges the extravagance of newness. Yet, within this constancy lies a craft that shows us a deeper process of maturation that combines both forces of stability and the energies of uncertainty amid change. This book shows how much we have to learn from Tomas Transtromer. --