Selected Poems

Viking Adult, 1999-03-28. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 6x1x9. First Edition with proper number line and $40.00 price on jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Shelf wear. Water damage to corner with some page ruffling. Spotting to bottom edge, remainder mark. xv, 477 pages ; 25 cm. <br> "This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges's poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, the selection draws from a lifetime's work - from Borges's first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), to his final work, Los conjurados, published just a year before his death in 1986. Throughout this unique collection the brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched by luminous English versions rendered by a remarkable cast of translators." - Viking Adult <br> "Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges exerted a strong influence on the direction of literary fiction through his genre-bending metafictions, essays, and poetry. Borges was a founder, and principal practitioner, of postmodernist literature, a movement in which literature distances itself from life situations in favor of reflection on the creative process and critical self-examination. Widely read and profoundly erudite, Borges was a polymath who could discourse on the great literature of Europe and America and who assisted his translators as they brought his work into different languages." - Poetry Foundation