The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolaño

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...."