***DO NOT REBLOG*** bookshelves: autobiography-memoir, nobel-laureate, spring-2015, handbag-read, paper-read, sweden, translation Read from March 27 to April 08, 2015 RIPDescription: Written a few years after Transtromer suffered a stroke that left him unable to speak, Memories Look at Me is...
My review is of this selection, really, not of the poems as individual poems. I thought some of the poems were quite good, but there were so many of them by so many translators from so many periods, that I couldn't really decide if I liked the poet's work or the translator's work. I'll probably try ...
I picked this up mostly because it was convenient (my local public library had it) and because it is the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. So, given I had not really heard of this author before, I was curious. I gave it a low rating because, for me, the book was just ok. I think other people may have ...
I haven't actually "read" the whole book, but finished most of it and found it rather slow going. Although I appreciate Tranströmer, I find it often hard to connect. I'm sure the failure is all mine...
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