Roberto Bolaño 
The Romantic Dogs: Poems [EPUB ebook] 

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 (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….’

Sobre o autor

Laura Healy has received a Master’s in Spanish from Harvard. She is the managing editor of Harvard Review and the web editor of Zoland Poetry.