Jorge Luis Borges is well-remembered for his fiction, but the Argentine master thought of himself as a poet. Below, Suzanne Jill Levine, editor of a five-book series of Borges’ poems, and UCLA Spanish and comparative literature professor Efraín Kristal read “A Dream” from Poems of the Night. The collection, presenting English and Spanish versions of each poem, many available in English for the first time, gathers Borges’ meditations on night, darkness, and dreams.
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*Photo courtesy Alex Ragone.