{"product_id":"airmail-the-letters-of-robert-bly-and-tomas-transtromer-9781555976392","title":"Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Transtromer","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe illuminating letters of the National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly and the Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Transtrmer  One day in spring 1964  the young American poet Robert Bly left his rural farmhouse and drove 150 miles to the University of Minnesota library in Minneapolis to obtain the latest book by the young Swedish poet Tomas Transtrmer. When Bly returned home that evening with a copy of Transtrmers The Half-Finished Heaven  he found a letter waiting for him from its author.  With this remarkable coincidence as its beginning  what followed was a vibrant correspondence between two poets who would become essential contributors to global literature. Airmail collects more than 290 letters  written from 1964 until 1990  when Transtrmer suffered a stroke that has left him partially paralyzed and diminished his capacity to write.  Across their correspondence  the two poets are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War  European and American elections  and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. Airmail also illuminates the work of translation as Bly began to render Transtrmers poetry into English and Transtrmer began to translate Blys poetry into Swedish. Their collaboration quickly turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years.  Insightful  brilliant  and often funny  Airmail provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each others particular genius. This publication marks the first time letters by Bly and Transtrmer have been made available in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665822048309,"sku":"ByrdShop_1555976395","price":23.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781555976392.jpg?v=1782408596","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/airmail-the-letters-of-robert-bly-and-tomas-transtromer-9781555976392","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}