Poems of the night: A dual-language edition with parallel text. Jorge Luis Borges ; edited with an introduction and notes by Efraín Kristal ; general editor, Suzanne Jill Levine.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: Spanish Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2010. Description: xix, 200 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780143106005; 0143106007Uniform titles: Poems Selections. English & Spanish Subject(s): Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Translations into English | Night -- PoetryLOC classification: PQ 7797 | .B635 A2 2010Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher descriptionItem type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General circulation books | Presbyterian University of East Africa - Main Library General Stacks | PQ 7797 .B635 A2 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 2014-4505 |
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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