Selected Poems

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 assembled 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 versions by an impressive array of translators:

Willis Barnstone •
Alexander Coleman •
Robert S. Fitzgerald •
Stephen Kessler •
Kenneth Krabbenhoft •
Eric McHenry •
W. S. Merwin •
Alastair Reid •
Hoyt Rogers •
Mark Strand •
Charles Tomlinson •
Alan S. Trueblood •
John Updike