Patty Crane

Patty Crane’s recent translations of Tomas Tranströmer’s poems have appeared in Blackbird, Guernica, Five Points, Free Verse, Plume, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. Bright Scythe, a bilingual selection of her translations, was published by Sarabande Books (2015), and The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer was published by Copper Canyon Press (2023). Crane is author of the poetry collection Bell I Wake To (Zone 3 Press First Book Award, 2019) and the book-length poem something flown (Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award Series, 2018). Her poems have most recently appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, and Verse Daily.

Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

"Somewhere along the way, my immersion in Tranströmer and my search for a sense of place merged. As if the poetry became the place, and the place the poetry."

October 27, 2023 By Patty Crane

Patty Crane

Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

"Somewhere along the way, my immersion in Tranströmer and my search for a sense of place merged. As if the poetry became the place, and the place the poetry."

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