El oro de los tigres

Published in 1972, when Borges was already a world-renowned writer, *El oro de los tigres* (The Gold of the Tigers) is a book of poems in which memory, literature, and personal experience intertwine with singular naturalness. Present within it are the themes and obsessions that run through his entire body of work: the sword and time, shadow and the mirror, chance and philosophical curiosity, his favorite authors, and the mark of his influences. Yet there is also the gold and black of the tigers he gazed at with fascination as a child in the Buenos Aires zoo, and the yellow that accompanied him throughout his blindness.