Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of poems, parables, and stories explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world.
Trade ReviewOne feels in
Dreamtigers a calm, an intimation of a truce, a tranquil fragility. Like so many last or near-last works...
Dreamtigers preserves the author's life-long concerns, but drained of urgency; horror has yielded to a resigned humorousness -- John Updike * New Yorker *
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I
- To Leopoldo Lugones
- The Maker
- Dreamtigers
- Dialogue on a Dialogue
- Toenails
- The Draped Mirrors
- Argumentum Ornithologicum
- The Captive
- The Sham
- Delia Elena San Marco
- Dead Men's Dialogue
- The Plot
- A Problem
- A Yellow Rose
- The Witness
- Martin Fierro
- Mutations
- Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote
- Paradiso, XXXI, 108
- Parable of the Palace
- Everything and Nothing
- Ragnarök
- Inferno, I, 32
- Borges and I
- Part II
- Poem about Gifts
- The Hourglass
- The Game of Chess
- Mirrors
- Elvira de Alvear
- Susana Soca
- The Moon
- The Rain
- On the Effigy of a Captain in Cromwell's Armies
- To an Old Poet
- The Other Tiger
- Blind Pew
- Referring to a Ghost of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Odd
- Referring to the Death of Colonel Francisco Borges (1835-1874)
- In Memoriam: A. R.
- The Borges
- To Luis de Camoëns
- Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Odd
- Ode Composed in 1960
- Ariosto and the Arabs
- On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar
- Luke XXIII
- Adrogué
- Ars Poetica
- Museum
- On Rigor in Science
- Quatrain
- Limits
- The Poet Declares His Renown
- The Magnanimous Enemy
- The Regret of Heraclitus
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luis Borges
