The Collected Poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Transtromer, now available in this comprehensive edition.In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the worldas the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world - an influence that has steadily grown, and now attained a prominence comparable to that of Pablo Neruda's during his lifetime. But if Neruda is blazing fire, Transtromer is expanding ice. The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems gathers all the poems Tomas Transtromer has published: from his distinctive first collection in 1954, 17 Poems, through his epic poem Baltics ( and "my most consistent attempt to write music and "), and The Sad Gondola, published six years after he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1990 ( and "I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case. and "), to his most recent slim book, The Great Enigma, published in Sweden in 2004. Also included is his prose-memoir Memories Look at Me, containing keys into his intensely spiritual, metaphysical poetry (like the brief passage of insect collecting on Runmaro Island when he was a teenager). Firmly rooted in the natural world, his work falls between dream and dream; it probes and "the great unsolved love and " with the opening up, through subtle modulations, of and "concrete words. and "