The Poet Declares His Fame

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.

Alan Dugan (1923–2003) was an American poet. His first book, Poems (Yale University Press, 1961), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His last book, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (Seven Stories Press, 2001) won the National Book Award and the Lannan Literary Award.