A bilingual selection of approximately two hundred poems by twentieth-century Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges, drawn from throughout his career, from the 1920s through the 1980s.

The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 A Universal History of Iniquity, a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic August 25, 1983 in which Borges meets himself as an old man.