Poesía completa

Perhaps all of Borges' work can be read as a long poetic meditation. From Fervor de Buenos Aires to Los conjurados, his poetry spans more than six decades of writing and constitutes the almost secret axis of a key chapter of 20th century literature. In it, emotion and erudition, the suburbs and eternity, love and time, blindness and the clarity of reason, identity and death coexist. At the same time, a form of order emerges that is astonishment and a cadence that fixes in words the intensity of the ephemeral. The verses that this volume brings together are made of memory and revelation, of irony and candor, of the music of speech and the rigor of thought. If the same questions that run through his stories and essays resonate in them, it is because Borges found in poetry not an answer, but a way to inhabit the mystery.