About the Book

Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in forms and length, have appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Threepenny Review, The Believer, Boston Review, Soft Targets, Tin House, The Nation, Circumference, A Public Space, and Conduit. Bolano's poetic voice is like no other's: "At that time, I'd reached the age of twenty/and I was crazy. /I'd lost a country/but won a dream./Long as I had that dream/nothing else mattered...."

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 143 pages

Language: English

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (Nov. 30th, 2008)

ISBN-10: 0811218015

ISBN-13: 9780811218016

Dimensions: 5.28 x 7.96 x 0.42 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.39 lbs

• Categories: Caribbean Latin American Poetry