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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 life-and 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 translators-among them W.S. Merwin, Christopher Maurer, Alan Trueblood, and Alastair Reid-this volume brings to light many poems that have never appeared in English, presenting them en face with their Spanish originals.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Mostly reprints; buy Selected Poems instead, Sep 16 2010
By Edward T. Brading - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Poems of the Night: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Paperback)
Penguin's publication of this book is curious. Of the 63 or so poems compiled, 39 are reprinted from Selected Poems, which is a much more comprehensive poetry collection, with over 200 poems, published by Penguin just eleven years ago. Every Borges fan ought to own Selected Poems. So the question becomes whether the extra 24 or so poems, plus earlier versions of two poems, are worth the price of the book -- not a question that one should have to ask where Borges is concerned. And collecting poems based on the themes of dreaming and blindness, as this book does, takes the fun out of the reader's doing that for himself. So one star for the book's concept, but five stars for Borges, for an average of three.
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