Complete Poetry

All of Borges's poetry in a single volume.

"The most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes. [...] One of the most memorable contemporary artists. [...] The debt we writers in Spanish owe him is enormous."
Mario Vargas Llosa

"One of the most extraordinary authors of the twentieth century."
The New York Times

After a lifetime of reading, writing, and teaching poetry, Borges confessed that he was still full of perplexities and had only gained one certainty: that poetry is written to delight the reader.

This book collects all of Jorge Luis Borges's poetic works, a peculiar literary conspiracy in favor of pleasure. The series opens with Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), Luna de enfrente (1925), and Cuaderno San Martín (1929), a trilogy composed upon his return to Argentina after a journey through Europe. In El Hacedor (1960) and Elogio de la sombra (1969), the tragedy of his blindness emerges, tempered by epic and metaphysical themes. From El oro de los tigres (1972) and La rosa profunda (1975), as his international celebrity grew, the author's tone became more intimate.

Borges writes about books, memory, labyrinths, mirrors, history, love, and eternity, and his verses continue to physically touch new generations, like the proximity of the sea.

Before sleep (or terror) wove mythologies and cosmogonies, before time was coined into days, the sea, the ever-present sea, already was and existed. Who is the sea? Who is that violent and ancient being that gnaws at the pillars of the earth and is one and many seas and abyss and splendor and chance and wind? Whoever looks at it sees it for the first time, always. With the astonishment that elemental things leave, beautiful evenings, the moon, the fire of a bonfire. Who is the sea, who am I? I will know on the day after the agony.

Review:
"Borges is a better poet than a narrator. His complete poetic works have been edited into a wonderful and indispensable volume, which could not lack the poem that begins with the most perfect hendecasyllable in the history of literature in our language: 'I will no longer be happy. Perhaps it doesn't matter.'"
Benjamín Prado, La Ventana (Cadena SER)

"Along with a small retinue of colleagues and prophets (Kafka and Joyce come to mind), Borges is more than a surprising storyteller and a brilliant stylist: he is a mirror that reflects the spirit of his time."
Chicago Tribune

"The most influential Latin American writer of the 20th century."
The Washington Post

"Borges, a skeptical visionary, fascinates us. [...] He fulfills our essential longing for the reasons why we read."
Harold Bloom, How to Read Jorge Luis Borges

"Don't quote him: read him. [...] It is urgent not just to read or reread him, but, as Bolaño suggested, 'to reread him again.'"
Gonzalo Núñez, La Razón