Prison: Nine Haiku from Hällby Youth Prison (1959), Tomas Tranströmer. Translated from the Swedish by Malena Mörling. Postscript by Jonas Ellerström

By Jonas Ellerström and Tomas Tranströmer

WINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Tomas Transtr?mer worked for several years as a psychologist for juvenile delinquents. In 1959 he visited his colleague ?ke Nordin, who was also a poet, at the H?llby youth prison in the southern part of Sweden. Later that year he sent Nordin a sequence of nine haiku, giving his impressions of the prison milieu. These poems were rediscovered in 2001 and are presented here in a bilingual edition.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 1935635182
• ISBN13: 9781935635185
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Tavern Books
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 7.5"