Selected Poems (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Luis Borges
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Twentieth century, Surrealism, Poetry or poets, Legends, Aesthetics, Skepticism
New York University professor emeritus Alexander Coleman has provided the literary world a valuable and distinctive volume of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’s verse, collecting all previously published poetry from 1923 to 1986 in one superlative edition. Overseeing a bilingual project that includes Borges’s nearly two hundred poems in both Spanish and English, Coleman drew on the talents of outstanding translators, including the work of Robert S. Fitzgerald, W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, John Updike, and Charles Tomlinson, to give the collection a variety of approaches and styles....
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