This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems, which makes it the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, and includes many works never previously translated.
Originally published: New York : Viking Penguin, 1999 English and Spanish on facing pages
Contents:
From Fervor de Buenos Aires [Prologue The streets Recoleta Cemetery The south Unknown street Truco Patio Sepulchral inscription Empty drawing room Year's end Remorse for any death Inscription on any tomb Break of day Benares Simplicity Parting Lines I could have written and lost round about 1922] From Moon Across the Way [Prologue Street with a pink corner store Anticipation of love General Quiroga rides to his death in a carriage Boast of quietness Manuscript found in a book of Joseph Conrad My whole life Sunset over Villa Ortuzar] 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 Ragnarok 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 Adrogue Ars Poetica Museum (On scientific rigor Quatrain Boundaries The poet proclaims his renown The generous friend Le regret d'Heraclite) 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 Suarez, Victor at Junin Matthew XXV: 30 The dagger Compass A poet of the thirteenth century A soldier of Urbina Limits Baltasar Gracian 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 forth 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 Rubaiyat 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 Henriquez Urena 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 Mexico To Manuel Mujica Lainez Herman Melville The moon To Johannes Brahms To my father Remorse Baruch Spinoza For 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
