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National Poetry Month Highlights: Tomas Tranströmer

By L.L. Barkat 5 Comments

Tomas Tranströmer has been writing for a long time. It shows. Join us in celebrating his poetry and life this National Poetry Month.

“We do not surrender. But want peace, ” says his poem “Allegro.” Maybe this is what every good poem (and poet) says to the world.

Photo by Familymwr, Creative Commons, via Flickr.

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L.L. Barkat
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L.L. Barkat is the Managing Editor of Tweetspeak Poetry and the author of six books for grown-ups and four for children, including the popular Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing. She has also served as a writer for The Huffington Post blog and is a freelance writer for Edutopia. Her poetry has appeared on NPR and at VQR and The Best American Poetry. Connect with her on LinkedIn.
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About L.L. Barkat

L.L. Barkat is the Managing Editor of Tweetspeak Poetry and the author of six books for grown-ups and four for children, including the popular Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing. She has also served as a writer for The Huffington Post blog and is a freelance writer for Edutopia. Her poetry has appeared on NPR and at VQR and The Best American Poetry. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

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  1. clbeyer says

    April 4, 2014 at 10:21 am

    Wow. Such a peaceful passion that man exudes. I will have to read some of his work soon.

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  2. L.L. Barkat says

    April 4, 2014 at 10:47 am

    C, so far my favorite happens to be the very first poem of his that I read. Those words… “we do not surrender. But want peace” are the kind of words a person might only pen once. (And I am taking them with me over and over.)

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    • clbeyer says

      April 4, 2014 at 11:01 am

      Any favorite collection of his, L.L. Barkat?

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      • L.L. Barkat says

        April 4, 2014 at 11:06 am

        I’m just getting started with Transtromer, as Maureen Doallas gave him to me for my Poetry Dare for National Poetry Month.

        Last night I sat and read his work aloud in Swedish (ha, don’t ask… because, truly, I haven’t a clue what Swedish should sound like) and then I read it in English. I liked the Swedish better and wished I knew what I was reading.

        The books I’m working from for NPM are ‘The Half-Finished Heaven’ and ‘Friends, You Drank Some Darkness’ (the latter is 3 Swedish poets).

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    April 29, 2014 at 4:45 pm

    […] had to read poetry. Donna read from Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. I read Symborska and Tranströmer. A few nights later, there were other fans, other readings by those we love, such as Maureen […]

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