Selected poems
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Coleman, Alexander editor
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9780670849413
9780140587210
9780140587210
Table of Contents
From the Book
From Fervor de Buenos Aires
From Moon across the way
From San Martín copybook
From The maker
From The self and the other
From For six strings
From In praise of darkness
From The gold of the tigers
From The unending rose
From The iron coin
From The history of the night
From The limit
From Atlas
From Los conjurados.
From the Book
From Fervor de Buenos Aires [Prologue --
The streets --
Recoleta Cemetery --
The south --
Unknown street --
Truco --
Patio --
Sepulchral inscription --
Empty drawing room --
Year's end --
Remorse for any death --
Inscription on any tomb --
Break of day --
Benares --
Simplicity --
Parting --
Lines I could have written and lost round about 1922] --
From Moon Across the Way [Prologue --
Street with a pink corner store --
Anticipation of love --
General Quiroga rides to his death in a carriage --
Boast of quietness --
Manuscript found in a book of Joseph Conrad --
My whole life --
Sunset over Villa Ortuzar] --
From San Martin Copybook [Prologue --
The mythical founding of Buenos Aires --
The flow of memories --
Deathwatch on the southside --
Northern suburb] --
From The Maker [For Leopoldo Lugones --
The maker --
Dreamtigers --
A yellow rose --
Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote --
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 --
Parable of the palace --
Everything and nothing --
Ragnarok --
Borges and I --
Poem of the gifts --
The hourglass --
Chess --
Mirrors --
The moon --
Rain --
The other tiger --
The Borges --
Ariosto and the Arabs --
Embarking on the study of Anglo-Saxon grammar --
Luke XXIII --
Adrogue --
Ars Poetica --
Museum (On scientific rigor --
Quatrain --
Boundaries --
The poet proclaims his renown --
The generous friend --
Le regret d'Heraclite) --
Epilogue] --
From The Self and the Other [Prologue --
The cyclical night --
Of heaven and hell --
Conjectural poem --
Poem of the fourth element --
To a minor poet of the Greek anthology --
A page to commemorate Colonel Suarez, Victor at Junin --
Matthew XXV: 30 --
The dagger --
Compass --
A poet of the thirteenth century --
A soldier of Urbina --
Limits --
Baltasar Gracian --
A Saxon (A.D. 449) --
The golem --
A rose and Milton --
Readers --
John I: 14 --
Waking up --
To one no longer young --
Alexander Selkirk --
Odyssey, book twenty-three --
To a minor poet of 1899 --
Texas --
Poem written in a copy of Beowulf --
To a sword at York Minster --
Emanuel Swedenborg --
Jonathan Edwards --
Emerson --
Camden, 1892 --
Paris, 1856 --
The enigmas --
The instant --
1964 --
The stranger --
To whoever is reading me --
The alchemist --
Someone --
Everness --
Oedipus and the enigma --
Spinoza --
Elegy --
Adam cast forth --
To a coin --
Ode written in 1966 --
Dream --
The sea --
A morning of 1649 --
To a Saxon poet --
To the son] --
From For Six Strings [Where can they have gone? --
Milonga of Manuel Flores --
A blade in the northside --
Milonga of Don Nicanor Paredes --
Milonga of Albornoz] --
From In Praise of Darkness [Prologue --
Cambridge --
New England, 1967 --
James Joyce --
The labyrinth --
Things --
Rubaiyat --
June, 1968 --
The guardian of the books --
Invocation to Joyce --
Two versions of "Knight, Death, and the Devil" --
Fragments from an apocryphal gospel --
His end and his beginning --
In praise of darkness] --
From The Gold of the Tigers [Prologue --
Tankas --
Susana Bombal --
The blind man --
The search --
1971 --
Things --
A bust of Janus speaks --
Poem of quantity --
The watcher --
To the German language --
1891 --
The dream of Pedro Henriquez Urena --
The palace --
Hengist wants men (A.D. 449) --
To a cat --
The gold of the tigers] --
From The Unending Rose [Prologue --
I --
The dream --
Browning resolves to be a poet --
The suicide --
To the nightingale --
I am --
A blind man --
1972 --
Elegy --
The exile (1977) --
Talismans --
The unending rose] --
From The Iron Coin [Prologue --
Nightmare --
Mexico --
To Manuel Mujica Lainez --
Herman Melville --
The moon --
To Johannes Brahms --
To my father --
Remorse --
Baruch Spinoza --
For a version of I Ching --
You are not the others --
The iron coin] --
From The History of the Night [Inscription --
Alexandria A.D. 641 --
Alhambra --
Music box --
I am not even dust --
Iceland --
Gunnar Thorgilsson (1816-1879) --
Things that might have been --
The mirror --
A Saturday --
The causes --
Adam is your ashes --
History of the night] --
From The Limit [Inscription --
Prologue --
Descartes --
The two cathedrals --
Beppo --
On acquiring an encyclopedia --
That man --
Two forms of insomnia --
The cloisters --
Note for a fantastic story --
Epilogue --
Happiness --
The maker --
Yesterdays --
Nostalgia for the present --
Poem --
Inferno, V, 129 --
Fame --
The just --
The accomplice --
Shinto --
The limit] --
From Atlas [My last tiger] --
From Los Conjurados [Inscription --
Prologue --
Christ on the cross --
The afternoon --
Elegy for a park --
Clouds (I) --
Clouds (II) --
The leaves of the cypress --
The web].
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