Selected Poems [Paperback]

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.

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Prologue
The Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires
The Flow of Memories
Deathwatch on the Southside
Northern Suburb

FromThe 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