The Sorrow Gondola is Swedish poet Tomas Transtrmers first collection of poems after his stroke in 1990. Translated by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grasssl, Transtrmers great work is available here in its first single-volume English edition. Influenced by Expressionist and Surrealist poetics, Transtrmers work has been criticized for not dealing directly with political issues. But his concerns are the mythic and imaginative aspects of human life, influenced, in part, by his role as a psychologist and his work with juveniles in prisons.
