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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Poems of the Night
• Subtitle: A Dual-language Edition With Parallel Text
• Author: Jorge Luis Borges, Efrain Kristal, Suzanne Jill Levine
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780143106005
• ISBN: 0143106007
• ID: 10974113
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Weight: 176 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. March 2010

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