Tomas Tranströmer Biography

Building on Modernism, Expressionism, and Surrealism, his poetry features powerful imagery concerned with fragmentation and isolation. He perfected a distinct kind of epiphanic lyric, often in quatrains, where nature acts as the energizing subject and the self is the object. His condensed, translucent images offer readers fresh access to reality, imagining spaces inhabited by the deep, like groundwater gushing into a newly dug well.