SOURCE: “Language as a Musical Organism: Borges' Later Poetry,” in Borges and the Kabbalah: And Other Essays on His Fiction and Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 124–36.
In the following essay, Alazraki examines Borges's later poetry, and praises its ability to convey “verbal music.”
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