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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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ISBN-13: 9780140587210
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 4/28/2000
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 496
Sales rank: 449,751
Product dimensions: 5.59 (w) x 8.41 (h) x 1.34 (d)

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Jorge Luis Borges

One of the twentieth century's greatest writers, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) published numerous collections of poems, essays, and fiction, Director of the National Library of Buenos Aires from 1955 to 1973, Borges was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from both Columbia and Oxford. He received various literary awards over the course of his career, including the International Publisher's Prize (which he shared with Samuel Beckett in 1961), the Jerusalem Prize, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize.

Biography

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and was educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of the 20th century, he published many collections of poems, essays, and short stories before his death in Geneva in June 1986.

In 1961, Borges shared the International Publishers' prize with Samuel Beckett. In 1971, Columbia University awarded him the first of many degrees of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, that he was to receive from the English-speaking world -- eventually, the list included both Oxford and Cambridge universities. In 1971 he also received the fifth biennial Jerusalem Prize and in 1973 was given one of Mexico's most prestigious cultural awards, the Alfonso Reyes Prize. In 1980 he shared with Gerardo Diego the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary accolade.

Borges was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973.

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Borges began writing at the age of six, mostly fantasy stories inspired by Cervantes. When he was nine, he translated Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince into Spanish, and the piece was published in El País, a local newspaper.

To the outrage of his followers, Borges never did receive the Nobel prize. "Not granting me the Nobel Prize has become a Scandinavian tradition," Borges once quipped. "Since I was born they have not been granting it to me."

Several of Borges's short stories have been adapted for the movies, most recently Death and the Compass (1996), directed by Alex Cox (Repo Man).

1. Date of Birth:
  
  August 24, 1899
2. Place of Birth:
  
  Buenos Aires, Argentina
1. Date of Death:
  
  June 14, 1986
2. Place of Death:
  
  Geneva, Switzerland
1. Education:
  
  B.A., Collège Calvin de Genève, 1914

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

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Bagamehr

Posted November 19, 2009

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Mirrors, and Tigers, and Knives! Oh My!

A very nice selection of the poetry of Borges with both Spanish texts and translations by a variety of translators, the book includes the poet's prologues, inscriptions, and epilogues to the various volumes from which the selections came. It's all here, labyrinths, tigers, knives and swords, mirrors, dreams, death, blindness, libraries, books, Saxons, Norse mythology, Homer, Virgil, Dante, Cervantes, Milton, Poe, the Bible, and Buenos Aires, and all transformed by the genius of Borges into sublime poetry. Among the many I liked were "The Just," "Alexandria, A.D. 641," and "The Limit." In "Fragments from an Apocryphal Gospel," I found a line quoted by Alberto Manguel: "41. Nothing is built on stone, everything on sand, but our duty is to build as if sand were stone . . ." This is a book to read before sleep as a catalyst for big dreams.
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An orginal mind

Borges´poetry reflects the quality of his mind, and is well worth the time. My only complaint with this edition is the fact that from time to time the translation is flawed. For example, one poem titled ¨El enemigo generoso¨(the generous enemy), is titled ¨The generous friend¨in the english translation...although arguments can always be made to defend a translation, one must be very careful in interpreting what they feel is the essence of the poem. Nonetheless, I highly recommend.
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