Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel Prize for Literature 2012

...and obviously, the prize didn't go to Bob Dylan! The winner, Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, was totally unknown to me. For some reason, there's not many contemporary poets that I read, and that's unfortunate. I always find myself re-reading poetry rather than discovering new one. Maybe, this will be an opportunity for me to change that trend. According to the Accademy, he's been awarded the prize because "through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality." His poetry books are supposed to be short, which I like in poetry. I find out that the only large poem that I go back to, is Paradise Lost, otherwise it is always a pocket book.