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Poems of the night
Jorge Luis Borges

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

Published 2010 by Penguin Books in New York .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

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

Edition Notes

This collection brings together Borges' poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, many poems appear here in English for the first time.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-191) and indexes.

Series
Penguin classics, Penguin classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
861/.62
Library of Congress
PQ7797.B635 A2 2010a

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 200 p. ;
Number of pages
200

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24422114M
ISBN 10
0143106007
ISBN 13
9780143106005
LC Control Number
2010001668
OCLC/WorldCat
430052055

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