{"product_id":"selected-poems-volume-2-9780140587210","title":"Selected Poems: Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Inside Flap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. A decade before writing his earliest stories, Borges published his first book of poems. And even in that precocious debut, the twenty-four-year-old poet claimed for himself the principal themes that would preoccupy him for the next half century: the cult of his ancestors and his \"mysterious habit called Buenos Aires\"; the enigma of time and the many yesterdays of history; the metaphysics of Schopenhauer and Berkeley; the now-familiar mirrors, mazes, and swords.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems -- the largest collection of Borges' 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: Willis Barnstone, Alexander Coleman, Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Kessler, Kenneth Krabbenhoft, Eric McHenry, W. S. Merwin, Alastair Reid, Hoyt Rogers, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, Alan S. Trueblood, and John Updike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Penguin published Andrew Hurley's new translation of Borges' Collected Fictions last year, the book was hailed in The New York Times as \"an event, a cause for celebration\". Now, the celebration continues with Selected Poems, the second installment in Penguin's three-volume edition of Borges' collectedworks in English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45086250729623,"sku":"9780140587210","price":1430.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780140587210.webp?v=1769202173","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/selected-poems-volume-2-9780140587210","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}