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Poems of the night : a dual-language edition with parallel text / Jorge Luis Borges ; edited with an introduction and notes by EfraiÌn Kristal ; general editor, Suzanne Jill Levine.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English, Spanish Original language: Spanish Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2010.Description: xix, 200 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780143106005
  • 0143106007
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections. English & Spanish
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 861/.62 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ7797.B635 A2 2010a
Contents:
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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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PQ7797 .B635 A2 2010A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001355295

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 (p. 187-191) and indexes.

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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