Poems of the Night
A dual-language volume of poems on darkness and lightmany appearing in English for the first timeby one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century
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 lifeand 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 translatorsamong them W. S. Merwin, Christopher Maurer, Alan Trueblood, and Alastair Reidthis volume brings to light many poems that have never appeared in English, presenting them en face with their Spanish originals.
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 lifeand 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 translatorsamong them W. S. Merwin, Christopher Maurer, Alan Trueblood, and Alastair Reidthis volume brings to light many poems that have never appeared in English, presenting them en face with their Spanish originals.
Auteur | | Jorge Luis Borges |
Taal | | Engels |
Type | | Paperback |
Categorie | | Poëzie, Bloemlezingen & Letterkunde |