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ISBN-10: 0811218015
ISBN-13: 9780811218016
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 11/01/2008
Dimensions: 7.96" L, 5.28" W, 0.42" H

The Romantic Dogs: Poems

Translator: Laura Healy

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Price: $17.95

Overview

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….”

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The translations are superb - almost all contain a gem. – A. W. Allworthy
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811218015
ISBN-13: 9780811218016
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 11/01/2008
Dimensions: 7.96" L, 5.28" W, 0.42" H
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