[Roger Slater]

There is a Selected Poems by Borges, with both the Spanish and facing English translations. It's almost 500 pages, so I'm confident his most important poems are included.

[Glenn Wright]

Hi, mignon—

I would be delighted to see your translation. You have done so much research on Borges and being a native Spanish speaker, you are aware of nuances that I cannot see. It’s fun to have a partner to explore Borges’s works with.
Glenn

[David Callin]

Hi Glenn. I am no expert on Borges - quite the opposite, really - and no Spanish speaker either (although I am learning, via Duolingo, for a holiday later this year), but what you've come up with here, in its current form, works very well for me. It does read as though it were an English original.

Cheers

David

[mignon ledgard]

Originally Posted by Glenn Wright

Hi, mignon—

I would be delighted to see your translation. You have done so much research on Borges and being a native Spanish speaker, you are aware of nuances that I cannot see. It’s fun to have a partner to explore Borges’s works with.
Glenn

Originally Posted by Glenn Wright

Hi, mignon—

I would be delighted to see your translation. You have done so much research on Borges and being a native Spanish speaker, you are aware of nuances that I cannot see. It’s fun to have a partner to explore Borges’s works with.
Glenn

Thank you for your kindness, Glenn,

It's still whimsical to be able to type for a short while without impediments. Just now, almost nine in the morning, not having slept, just finished watching a documentary about Borges. Imagine my surprise when it ends with him reading Borges y Yo.

I will have to hear it a few more times, but it sounds like he is saying 'Biographical Dictionary', not Bibliographical. PM won't do for this purpose, and I don't know about bumping that thread. There's more on our genius, and that you chose Lorca to translate makes me have a little nervous laughter, but not merely amused, either. In my peculiar life, coincidence is not explicit enough, so it earns calling it synchronicity. I have a dozen translations I did of Lorca's poems. It also happens that Lorca is another author whose works are interrelated. Oh, they were both 'fugitives' for political reasons.

I lost the rest of my even longer response because I got bumped off the group before I had a chance to copy and paste. Maybe I’ll be able to reconstruct it.

Have a good weekend,
~mignon

[Glenn Wright]

Hi, mignon—

Even though all of the original Spanish texts of “Borges y Yo” that I found use “un diccionario bibliográfico”, I think “biográfico” makes better sense. I suspect that editors are tempted to quietly emend the text.

I am working on translating the poem “Aprendiendo” by Borges. The last part of it is often published separately under the title “Con el Tiempo.” There is a mystery about whether the first part of the poem was written by Borges or translated by him from another author. One of the candidates is Shakespeare! I know you love to research Borges and thought this might be fun to work on with you.

Glenn

[mignon ledgard]

Glenn,

Borges, didn't deny his borrowing. Did I mention Lorca's "illusory dawn"? Ha. about NYC's artificial lights. I think "gray" is 'cement city.'

I used to b prolific. Novv, I slouch in my chair and vvatch you, vvondring hovv you do it. : )

Thank you,
~mignon

I oppose the erasures by critics or experts but maybe "el otro" himself did it. ?