This bilingual collection of 44 Poems offers American readers their first chance to encounter Bolano as a poet--how the literary phenomenon really saw himself. /I\'d lost a country/but won a dream./Long as I had that dream/nothing else mattered.....
Bolano\'s poetic voice is like no other\'s: At that time, I\'d reached the age of twenty/and I was crazy.
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.
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.
This bilingual collection of 44 Poems offers American readers their first chance to encounter Bolano as a poet--how the literary phenomenon really saw himself
