SOURCE: “A Late Harvest,” in Borges Revisited, Twayne Publishers, 1991, pp. 69–100.

In the following excerpt, Stabb offers a brief survey of Borges's later poetry.

Later Poetry

In 1964, Borges's publishers, the Buenos Aires firm of Emecé Editores, brought out a single volume Obra poética (Poetic works) that included, with some modifications, his three early collections and a group of mostly newer compositions under the subheading “El otro, el mismo” (“The other, himself”).¹ This section of the volume also includes the poems of Dreamtigers, though they are not identified as such. In addition, the collection retrieves a few poems from the forties and early fifties that had not appeared in earlier poetic collections. The 1979 Obra poética uses the same subtitle, “El otro, el mismo,” for a section of the volume but adds a new prologue and a number of poems written in the late 1960s while it excludes the...