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Poems of the night, a dual-language edition with parallel text, Jorge Luis Borges ; edited with an introduction and notes by Efrain Kristal ; general editor, Suzanne Jill Levine

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and indexes

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poetry

Poems of the night

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Jorge Luis Borges ; edited with an introduction and notes by Efrain Kristal ; general editor, Suzanne Jill Levine

Penguin classics

a dual-language edition with parallel text

"Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly to the blindness that overtook Borges late in life-and yet the poems here are drawn from the full span of Borges's career. Featuring such poems as "History of the Night" and "In Praise of Darkness" and more than fifty others in luminous translations by an array of distinguished translators-among them W.S. Merwin, Christopher Maurer, Alan Trueblood, and Alastair Reid-this volume brings to light many poems that have never appeared in English, presenting them en face with their Spanish originals."--Book cover

I.A Poet Dreams -- The Forging -- Break of Day -- Patio -- Street with a Pink Corner Store -- A Leavetaking -- Afterglow -- Sepulchral Inscription -- Remorse of Any Death -- Inscription on Any Tomb -- General Quiroga Rides to His Death in a Carriage -- Deathwatch on the Southside -- St. John's Eve -- Almost a Last Judgment -- Dreamtigers -- Insomnia -- The Cyclical Night -- Conjectural Poem -- Of Heaven and Hell -- Museum: Quatrain, Boundaries, The Poet Proclaims His Renown -- II. The Gift of Blindness -- Poems of the Gifts -- The Moon -- Ars Poetica -- Mirrors -- Limits -- The Golem -- Someone -- Where Can They Have Gone? -- Heraclitus -- The Labyrinth -- Two Versions of "Knight, Death, and the Devil" -- In Praise of Darkness -- The Gold of the Tigers -- The Dream -- The Suicide -- Elegy -- The Unending Rose -- Ein Traum -- Signs -- Endymion on Latmos -- I Am Not Even Dust -- A Saturday -- Adam Is Your Ashes -- III. Waiting For The Night -- History of the Night -- The Young Night -- Two Forms of Insomnia -- Poem -- Yesterdays -- Sleep -- Dreams -- A Dream -- Someone Will Dream -- A Dream in Edinburgh -- The Horse -- A Nightmare -- Doomsday -- Midgarthormr -- Inferno, V, 129 -- Elegy for a Park -- Haiku -- The Limit -- Milonga of the Dead man -- The Gift