{"product_id":"blue-house","title":"Blue House","description":"\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eNobel Prize-winner Tomas Tranströmer explores the personal and political, the ecological and existential, through poems that expand like the widening scope of a telephoto lens.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith slow strokes and subtle, rich lines, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis evidence of a Nobel Prize-winning poet tracing the world with his pen. A stunning testament to an illustrious career, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Blue House \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egathers poems and writings from Tranströmer’s fourteen collections into a single book. Original Swedish sits alongside their English translations as Patty Crane translates his words into revelatory language acute in the understanding of human change and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSubtle in politics and exact in imagery, the poems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Blue House \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erange from agile haiku to cinematic prose. Social phenomena are observed in rich detail—a “dictator’s bust” presiding over a train car of doomed passengers—and the collection is propelled by empathy and curiosity. Under Tranströmer’s watchful eye, no subject is overlooked: Milij Balakirev, the Russian composer; Nils Dacke, the Swedish peasant who led a rebellion against the king; and him, the stranger who forgets his name by the roadside. From the personal to the political to the existential, Tranströmer’s poems act as a telephoto lens, granting us reinvigorated access to the world we live in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57393915199870,"sku":"NW9781556596858","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781556596858.jpg?v=1780711594","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/blue-house","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}