The Largest Collection Of Poetry Ever Assembled In English By The Most Important Spanishlanguage Writer Since Cervantes (Mario Vargas Llosa)A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition With Flaps And Deckleedged Paperthough Universally Acclaimed For His Dazzling Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges Always Considered Himself First And Foremost A Poet. This New Bilingual Selection Brings Together Some Two Hundred Poems, Including Scores Of Poems Never Previously Translated. Edited By Alexander Coleman, It Draws From A Lifetime'S Workfrom 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 By A Remarkable Cast Of Translators, Including Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Kessler, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, And John Updike.For More Than Seventyfive Years, Penguin Has Been The Leading Publisher Of Classic Literature In The Englishspeaking World. With More Than 2,000 Titles, Penguin Classics Represents A Global Bookshelf Of The Best Works Throughout History And Across Genres And Disciplines. Readers Trust The Series To Provide Authoritative Texts Enhanced By Introductions And Notes By Distinguished Scholars And Contemporary Authors, As Well As Uptodate Translations By Awardwinning Translators.
