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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mostly reprints; buy Selected Poems instead,
This review is from: Poems of the Night: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
Penguin's publication of this book is curious. Of the 63 or so poems compiled, 39 are reprinted from Selected Poems, which is a much more comprehensive poetry collection, with over 200 poems, published by Penguin just eleven years ago. Every Borges fan ought to own Selected Poems. So the question becomes whether the extra 24 or so poems, plus earlier versions of two poems, are worth the price of the book -- not a question that one should have to ask where Borges is concerned. And collecting poems based on the themes of dreaming and blindness, as this book does, takes the fun out of the reader's doing that for himself. So one star for the book's concept, but five stars for Borges, for an average of three.
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Poems of the Night: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Penguin Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges (Paperback - March 30, 2010)
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