This collection brings together Borges' poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, many poems appear here in English for the first time. Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-191) and indexes.
Contents:
I. A Poet Dreams -- The Forging -- Break of Day -- Patio -- Street with a Pink Corner Store -- A Leavetaking -- Afterglow -- Sepulchral Inscription -- Remorse of Any Death -- Inscription on Any Tomb -- General Quiroga Rides to His Death in a Carriage -- Deathwatch on the Southside -- St. John's Eve -- Almost a Last Judgment -- Dreamtigers -- Insomnia -- The Cyclical Night -- Conjectural Poem -- Of Heaven and Hell -- Museum: Quatrain, Boundaries, The Poet Proclaims His Renown -- II. The Gift of Blindness -- Poems of the Gifts -- The Moon -- Ars Poetica - Mirrors -- Limits -- The Golem -- Someone -- Where Can They Have Gone? -- Heraclitus -- The Labyrinth -- Two Versions of "Knight, Death, and the Devil" -- In Praise of Darkness -- The Gold of the Tigers -- The Dream -- The Suicide -- Elegy -- The Unending Rose -- Ein Traum -- Signs -- Endymion on Latmos -- I Am Not Even Dust -- A Saturday -- Adam Is Your Ashes -- III. Waiting For The Night -- History of the Night -- The Young Night -- Two Forms of Insomnia -- Poem -- Yesterdays -- Sleep -- Dreams -- A Dream -- Someone Will Dream -- A Dream in Edinburgh -- The Horse -- A Nightmare -- Doomsday -- Midgarthormr -- Inferno, V, 129 -- Elegy for a Park -- Haiku -- The Limit -- Milonga of the Dead man -- The Gift
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