{"id":39588,"date":"2020-05-12T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=39588"},"modified":"2020-05-19T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T16:33:16","slug":"borges-the-thing-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/05\/borges-the-thing-i-am.html","title":{"rendered":"Borges: &#8216;The Thing I Am&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2004\/the-thing-i-am-jorge-luis-borges?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=1cec03aaf9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-1cec03aaf9-55634461&amp;mc_cid=1cec03aaf9&amp;mc_eid=d174d7aeb1\">'I have forgotten my name. I am not Borges\n(Borges died at La Verde, under fire) . . .<\/a><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"549\" data-attachment-id=\"39586\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/borges-recto-brdcr365\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-recto-brdcr365.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"365,549\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;The Thing I Am&amp;#8217; (drawing) by J.J.Borges (Cold Turkey Press, 2020)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-recto-brdcr365-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-recto-brdcr365.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-recto-brdcr365.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-recto-brdcr365.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-recto-brdcr365-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption>Self-portrait by J. L. Borges after losing his sight.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"549\" data-attachment-id=\"39587\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/borges-verso-brdr-365\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-verso-brdr-365.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"365,549\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;The Thing I Am&amp;#8217; by J.J.Borges (Cold Turkey Press, 2020)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-verso-brdr-365-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-verso-brdr-365.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-verso-brdr-365.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-verso-brdr-365.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-verso-brdr-365-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption>Cold Turkey Press (2020). Card limited to 36 copies..  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I have forgotten my name. I am not Borges<br \/>\n(Borges died at La Verde, under fire)<br \/>\nNor am I Acevedo, dreaming of battle . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-main","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/borges-recto-brdcr365.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aiw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39701,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588\/revisions\/39701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}