Ars Poetica

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires on August 24, 1899. He died on June 14, 1986 in Geneva—where, he wrote, he had felt “mysteriously happy”—and is buried in the Cemetery of Kings there.

“A Master in Montreal: A 1968 Interview with Jorge Luis Borges” by Don Bell appeared in AGNI 52.

Jim Powell is the author of two collections of poetry, It Was Fever That Made The World (University of Chicago Press, 1989) and Substrate (Pantheon, 2009), and the translator of The Poetry Of Sappho (Oxford University Press, 2007). He is a MacArthur Fellow and a former Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago. He was born and lives in the San Francisco Bay area. (updated 9/2015)