Selected Poems, Vol. 2
Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems—the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, the selection draws from a lifetime's work—from Borges' first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), to his final work, Los...
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An unparalleled and long-overdue volume of poetry by "the most important Spanish writer since Cervantes"(Mario Vargas Llosa). Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems—the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, the selection draws from a lifetime's work—from Borges' first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), to his final work, Los conjurados, published just a year before his death in 1986. Throughout this unique collection the brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched by luminous English versions by a remarkable cast of translators, including Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Kessler, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, and John Updike."A surfeit of riches. . . . Jorge Luis Borges' poetry alone would be enough to underwrite his immense reputation." — San Francisco ChronicleExquisitely packaged edition with French flaps and rough front, quality paper stock. One of the twentieth century's greatest writers, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) published numerous collections of poems, essays, and fiction. He received the Jerusalem Prize and the Alfonso Reyes Prize.Alexander Coleman is Professor Emeritus of Portuguese and Spanish Studies at New York University.
Jorge Luis Borges: 20 Selected Poems From San Martin Copybook\ Prologue The Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires The Flow of Memories Deathwatch on the Southside Northern Suburb\ From The Maker\ For Leopoldo Lugones The Maker Dreamtigers A Yellow Rose Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote\ Paradiso, XXXI, 108\ Parable of the Palace Everything and Nothing Ragnarök Borges and I Poem of the Gifts The Hourglass Chess Mirrors The Moon Rain The Other Tiger The Borges Ariosto and the Arabs Embarking on the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar Luke XXIII Adrogué\ Ars Poetica Museum\ On Scientific Rigor Quatrain Boundaries The Poet Proclaims His Renown The Generous Friend Le Regret D' Héraclite\ Epilogue\ From The Self and the Other\ Prologue The Cyclical Night Of Heaven and Hell Conjectural Poem Poem of the Fourth Element To a Minor Poet of the Greek Anthology A Page to Commemorate Colonel Syárez, Victor at Junín Matthew XXV: 30\ The Dagger Compass A Poet of the Thirteenth Century A Soldier of Urbina Limits Baltasar Gracián A Saxon (A.D. 449)\ The Golem A Rose and Milton Readers John I: 14\ Waking Up To One No Longer Young Alexander Selkirk Odyssey, Book Twenty-three To a Minor Poet of 1899\ Texas Poem Written in a Copy Of Beowulf\ To a Sword at York Minster Emanuel Swedenborg Jonathan Edwards Emerson Camden, 1892\ Paris, 1856\ The Enigmas The Instant\ 1964\ The Stranger To Whoever Is Reading Me The Alchemist Someone Everness Oedipus and the Enigma Spinoza Elegy Adam Cast Fourth To a Coin Ode Written in 1966\ Dream The Sea A Morning of 1649\ To a Saxon Poet To the Son\ From For Six Strings\ Where Can They Have Gone?\ Milonga of Manuel Flores A Blade in the Northside Milonga of Don Nicanor Paredes Milonga of Albornoz\ From In Praise of Darkness\ Prologue Cambridge New England, 1967\ James Joyce The Labyrinth Things Rubaíyát June, 1968\ The Guardian of the Books Invocation to Joyce Two Versions of "Knight, Death, and the Devil"\ Fragments from an Apocryphal Gospel His End and His Beginning In Praise of Darkness\ From The Gold of the Tigers\ Prologue Tankas Susana Bombal The Blind Man The Search\ 1971\ Things A Bust of Janus Speaks Poem of Quantity The Watcher To the German Language\ 1891\ The Dream of Pedro Henríquez Ureña The Palace Hengist Wants Men (A.D. 449)\ To a Cat The Gold of the Tigers\ From The Unending Rose\ Prologue I\ The Dream Browning Resolves to Be a Poet The Suicide To the Nightingale I Am A Blind Man\ 1972\ Elegy The Exile (1977)\ Talismans The Unending Rose\ From The Iron Coin\ Prologue Nightmare México To Manuel Mujica Lainez Herman Melville The Moon To Johannes Brahms To My Father Remorse Baruch Spinoza To a Version of I Ching\ You Are Not the Others The Iron Coin\ From The History of the Night\ Inscription Alexandria A.D. 641\ Alhambra Music Box I Am Not Even Dust Iceland Gunnar Thorgilsson (1816-1879)\ Things That Might Have Been The Mirror A Saturday The Causes Adam Is Your Ashes History of the Night\ From The Limit\ Inscription Prologue Descartes The Two Cathedrals Beppo On Acquiring an Encyclopedia That Man Two Forms of Insomnia The Cloisters Note for a Fantastic Story Epilogue Happiness The Maker Yesterdays Nostalgia for the Present Poem\ Inferno, V, 129\ Fame The Just The Accomplice Shinto The Limit\ From Atlas\ My Last Tiger\ From Los Conjurados\ Inscription Prologue Christ on the Cross The Afternoon Elegy for a Park Clouds (I)\ Clouds (II)\ The Leaves of the Cypress\ The Web
