© Ugur Akinci
Reading is half of writing. I don't know a single good writer who also is not a good reader. And what better way to enjoy reading than drinking in a good poem at the end of a long day at work...
I had no idea who Tomas Transtromer was until he won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year (2011). But once I started to read his poems I was hooked. I'm not a scholar, nor am I a very well read man. But I bet Transtromer is one of those rare poets who can find the precise delicate imagery for every subtle feeling and shifting emotion.
Here is "Nocturne" from his book The Half-Finished Heaven:
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