Poems of the night
Subtitle: a dual-language edition with parallel text
By: Jorge Luis Borges ; edited with an introduction and notes by Efraín Kristal ; general editor, Suzanne Jill Levine.
Contributors: Kristal, Efraín, 1959-; Levine, Suzanne Jill.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780143106005
Subjects: Borges, Jorge Luis, -- 1899-1986 -- Translations into English; Night -- Poetry
Genres: Translations into English; Poetry
Work titles: Poems.
Description: "Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly to the blindness that overtook Borges late in life-and yet the poems here are drawn from the full span of Borges's career. Featuring such poems as "History of the Night" and "In Praise of Darkness" and more than fifty others in luminous translations by an array of distinguished translators-among them W.S. Merwin, Christopher Maurer, Alan Trueblood, and Alastair Reid-this volume brings to light many poems that have never appeared in English, presenting them en face with their Spanish originals."--Book cover.
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 and index.