Contributions

  • Kristal, Efraín, 1959- - Contributor
  • Levine, Suzanne Jill. - Contributor

Publication

2010 - Penguin Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

50,000 words, Guess

Page Count

200 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780143106005
  • ISBN-100143106007
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010001668
  • OCLC Control Number430052055
  • Better World Books9780143106005
and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC861/.62
  • LCCPQ7797.B635 A2 2010a
  • LCCPQ7797.B635A2 2010a

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.

Subjects

Topics

NightPoetryNight -- PoetryTranslations into EnglishPoetry (poetic works by one author)Borges, Jorge Luis, -- 1899-1986 -- Translations into English

Genres

  • Poetry
  • Translations into English

Series Statement

  • Penguin classics

Other Editions

  • Poems of the nightPenguin Books2010

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