17 Poems | |
Author: | Tomas Tranströmer |
Title Orig: | 17 dikter |
Country: | Sweden |
Language: | Swedish |
Publisher: | Albert Bonniers förlag |
Pub Date: | 1954 |
Pages: | 54 |
17 Poems (Swedish: '''17 dikter''') is a 1954 poetry collection by the Swedish writer Tomas Tranströmer. It was Tranströmer's debut book: he had previously only been published in journals.[1] The book was well received in the Swedish press and praised for its formal confidence and imagination in metaphors.[2]
Several of the poems in 17 poems have been set to music.[3] [4]