SELECTED POEMS : BORGES - Penguin Modern Classic Bilingual Ed

Universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself to be first and foremost a poet. This collection of his poetry, the largest ever to be assambled in English (alongside the original Spanish), includes scores of pieces that have never previously been translated.

Selected from a lifetime's work, the poems explore themes that preoccupied Borges :the enigma of Time and history, the metaphysics of Schopenhauer and Berkeley; the cult of his ancestors and his mysterious habit called Buenos Aires; and the imagery of mirrors,mazes and swords.The brilliance of the original Spanish is in each case matched by luminous English version by an impressive array of translators.