The Romantic Dogs - Poems (Paperback)

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...."

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	November 2008
Authors:	Roberto Bolano
Translators:	Laura Healy
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-1801-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8112-1801-5
Barcode:	9780811218016

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