Poems Jorge Luis Borges Translated and with a Note by Anthony Kerrigan New Write

Description: A collection of poems by Jorge Luis Borges, translated and annotated by Anthony Kerrigan. Published by New Writers’ Press. Soft cover. Limited Edition. Dublin: New Writers' Press, 1969. 1st edition. 300 copies printed, this copy: number 164. Tall 8vo. 23pp. Pale blue illustrated wrappers in black and brown. Designed and printed by hand by Michael Smith, at New Writer's Press, Dublin. Lino-cut by Trevor Joyce. • A compilation of Jorge Luis Borges's poems • Translated and annotated by Anthony Kerrigan • Published by New Writers’ Press • Signed by Anthony Kerrigan, with inscribed to his son Michael. Good condition but some sunning to paper boards. About the translator: Anthony Kerrigan, a poet and translator of works by Spanish and Latin American writers, translated works by Jorge Luis Borges, including "Ficciones," "A Personal Anthology," "Poems" and "Irish Strategies," and by Miguel de Unamuno, the Spanish philosopher, including "Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno." He won a National Book Award for his 1973 translation of Unamuno's "Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations." Other notable translations include Pablo Neruda's "Selected Poems," Camilo Jose Cela's "Family of Pascual Duarte" and "The Revolt of the Masses," by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Mr. Kerrigan's also had published three collections of his own poetry: "Lear in the Tropic of Paris" (1952), "Espousal in August" (1968) and "At the Front Door of the Atlantic" (1969). Kerrigan was born in Winchester, Massachusetts but lived in Cuba until he was 12. In 1988, the National Endowment for the Arts gave him an unsolicited grant for lifetime contributions to American letters. He also served as a guest scholar at the University of Notre Dame and at Indiana University. Mr. Kerrigan passed away in 1991, survived by a wife and five children, including Michael, of Los Angeles. This book descended in the Michael Kerrigan line where we obtained it from a Los Angeles estate sale.

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