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Poems of the Night : : a Dual-Language Edition With Parallel Text

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Book - 2010 World-SPA 861.62-Bo 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 2.3 out of 5

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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.
I. A Poet Dreams -- The Forging -- Break of Day -- Patio -- Street with a Pink Corner Store -- A Leavetaking -- Afterglow -- Sepulchral Inscription -- Remorse of Any Death -- Inscription on Any Tomb -- General Quiroga Rides to His Death in a Carriage -- Deathwatch on the Southside -- St. John's Eve -- Almost a Last Judgment -- Dreamtigers -- Insomnia -- The Cyclical Night -- Conjectural Poem -- Of Heaven and Hell -- Museum: Quatrain, Boundaries, The Poet Proclaims His Renown -- II. The Gift of Blindness -- Poems of the Gifts -- The Moon -- Ars Poetica - Mirrors -- Limits -- The Golem -- Someone -- Where Can They Have Gone? -- Heraclitus -- The Labyrinth -- Two Versions of "Knight, Death, and the Devil" -- In Praise of Darkness -- The Gold of the Tigers -- The Dream -- The Suicide -- Elegy -- The Unending Rose -- Ein Traum -- Signs -- Endymion on Latmos -- I Am Not Even Dust -- A Saturday -- Adam Is Your Ashes -- III. Waiting For The Night -- History of the Night -- The Young Night -- Two Forms of Insomnia -- Poem -- Yesterdays -- Sleep -- Dreams -- A Dream -- Someone Will Dream -- A Dream in Edinburgh -- The Horse -- A Nightmare -- Doomsday -- Midgarthormr -- Inferno, V, 129 -- Elegy for a Park -- Haiku -- The Limit -- Milonga of the Dead man -- The Gift.

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SERIES
Penguin classics.



PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xix, 200 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780143106005
0143106007

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Kristal, Efraín, 1959-
Levine, Suzanne Jill.

SUBJECTS
Borges, Jorge Luis, -- 1899-1986 -- Translations into English.
Night -- Poetry.
Spanish language materials -- Bilingual.
Spanish language materials.