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By Jorge Luis Borges
Edited by Alexander Coleman

By Jorge Luis Borges
Edited by Alexander Coleman

By Jorge Luis Borges
Read by Juanita Devis
Edited by Alexander Coleman

By Jorge Luis Borges
Read by Juanita Devis
Edited by Alexander Coleman

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    About Selected Poems

    The largest collection of poetry ever assembled in English by “the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes” (Mario Vargas Llosa)

    A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper

    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, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, it draws from a lifetime’s work–from Borges’s 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.

    For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Selected Poems

    The largest collection of poetry ever assembled in English by “the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes” (Mario Vargas Llosa)

    A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper

    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, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, it draws from a lifetime’s work–from Borges’s 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.

    For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    About Jorge Luis Borges

    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and author of short stories. His most notable works as a key literary Spanish-language figure of the twentieth century include Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph). He received a BA from… More about Jorge Luis Borges

    About Jorge Luis Borges

    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and author of short stories. His most notable works as a key literary Spanish-language figure of the twentieth century include Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph). He received a BA from… More about Jorge Luis Borges

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $28.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Apr 01, 2000 | 496 Pages | 5-5/8 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780140587210

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    Published by Penguin Audio
    Jun 20, 2023 | 859 Minutes | ISBN 9780593792438

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    Praise

    “A surfeit of riches . . . Borges’s poetry alone would be enough to underwrite his immense reputation.” —Geoff Dyer, San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “An unprecedented and invaluable collection.” —Booklist
     
    “A definitive collection . . . True beauty is a rare find. These poems expand the reader’s awareness of language, image, and what it means to live.” —The Santa Fe New Mexican

    “For today’s readers, Borges seems to be saying that more mysterious and magical than dreams or other worlds are the voices and words of our loved ones; beauty is a daily revelation, and happiness, the intelligence of understanding and recognition. Borges has become our classic voice of wonder.” —Julio Ortega, Brown University
     
    “With Pablo Neruda and Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges set in motion the wave of astonishing writing that has given Latin American literature its high place in our time. Yet Borges stands alone, a planet unto himself, resisting categorization. Although literary fashions come and go, he is always there, endlessly re-readable by those who admire him, awaiting rediscovery by new generations of readers.” —Jay Parini, The Nation

    Table Of Contents

    Jorge Luis Borges: 20 Selected PoemsFrom 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

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