This poet's "A Rose and Milton" and "General Quiroga Rides to His Death in a Carriage" were translated by Alastair Reid, who, like Norman Thomas di Giovanni, is one of his foremost translators.
In a poem, this author wrote of a flower "from some obliterated garden" whose "past existence magically lasts and glows forever in this poetry." In that poem by this man, the speaker celebrates how Destiny allows him to spare "that silent flower, the very final rose that Milton held before his face, but could not see." This poet closed another poem by placing the title soldier in "the Hell marked out for him by God," where "the souls in purgatory of his soldiers and his horses" march. This poet's "A Rose and Milton" and "General Quiroga Rides to His Death in a Carriage" were translated by Alastair Reid, who, like Norman Thomas di Giovanni, is one of his foremost translators. In thematic unity with many of his prose works, this poet wrote a poem noting that he "had always thought of Paradise in form and image as a library." This author claimed that his "Poem of the Gifts" could have been written by Groussac in an essay about his blindness. For 10 points, name this Argentine poet better known for the stories collected in Ficciones.
In a poem, this author wrote of a flower "from some obliterated garden" whose "past existence magically lasts and glows forever in this poetry."
Jorge Luis Borges (HORE-hay loo-EES "BOAR"-hayce)