Re: (TV) Tomas Transtrvmer (was: Raven sucks)

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 10:51 AM +0000 2/14/03, leif joley wrote:
> Verlaine repeatedly over the years has claimed a poet from my county 
> to be one of his main influences in lyric-writing - Tomas 
> Transtrvmer. Has anyone read him?

This is totally new to me.  Now you have me intrigued!  Any 
recommendations about where to start with him?

> The Swedish alphabet has three more letters than the English one (e, 
> d, v), which doubtlessly make our language much more richer than 
> yours.

I was always fond of the o with the slash through it--even better 
than umlauts, although I have no idea how to pronounce it.
--
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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