The Romantic Dogs: Poems

By Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bola o (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. Bola o'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...."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811218015
• ISBN13: 9780811218016
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Bolaño writes great poetry!

Too bad this only volume of Bolaño is out of print because the price is steep, but, for fans of his work, I think it’s essential. Dual language edition, too! His poetry is an intimate look at the thematic elements of his fiction. Spare and luminous, like an electric streetlight in the darkness.