The Romantic Dogs

Listed as a 2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten book by the American Booksellers Association Roberto Bolano as he saw himself in his own first calling as a poet. Roberto Bolano 19532003 has caught on like a house on fire and The Romantic Dogs a bilingual collection of fortyfour poems offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems wideranging in forms and length have appeared in magazines such as Harpers Threepenny Review The Believer Boston Review Soft Targets Tin House The Nation Circumference A Public Space and Conduit. Bolanos poetic voice is like no others At that time Id reached the age of twentyand I was crazy. Id lost a countrybut won a dream.Long as I had that dreamnothing else mattered....