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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