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112th Birthday of Jorge Luis Borges – August 23 Google Doodles Collection
Jorge Luis Borges
Born in 1899, Borges began writing poems as a boy and published his first volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires, in 1923, a decade before he started writing his best-known ficciones. Throughout his life (he died in 1986) Borges deemed himself principally a poet, secondarily a writer of fiction. In his prologue to a revised edition of Fervor (1969), Borges said he had “moderated its baroque excesses” and “eliminated sentimentality and haziness.” He declined to renounce his younger self, however, and said: “At the time, I was seeking out late afternoons, drab outskirts, and unhappiness; now I seek mornings, the center of town, peace.” The poem chosen by Efraín Kristal to open Poems of the Night, “The Forging,” is taken fromFervor de Buenos Aires. Here is Christopher Maurer’s English version:
Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Borges in 1951, by Grete Stern
POEMS OF THE NIGHT BY JORGE LUIS BORGES
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