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false <![CDATA[The Romantic Dogs (New Directions Paperbook)]]> 3424994 3 Discover Roberto Bolaño as he saw himself, in his own first calling as a poet. Roberto Bolaño (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. Bolaño'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...." 3386042 2006 The Romantic Dogs (New Directions Paperbook) total:129|5:40|4:45|3:29|2:13|1:2| 129 495 244 34 5 4 false false Wed Jun 18 12:53:29 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 27 12:25:12 -0800 2009 Another posthumous collection. This guy is a regular Tupac. And by that I mean dead, but still getting more done than me. ]]> 5 2 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 09:45:39 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 21:53:05 -0700 2008

Rain

It's raining and you say it's as if the clouds
were crying. Then cover your mouth and speed up
your step. As if those emaciated clouds were crying?
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I've given these poems a slew of chances-- read them aloud and silently, in English and Spanish, over a month or so—- dissected them with a pen, read drunk, and dreamt on them (literally passed out atop book.) Some phrases a...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 09:50:02 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 13:37:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Feb 02 13:23:40 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 13:31:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Jul 20 19:53:42 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 19:53:42 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 16:33:36 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 13 15:33:34 -0800 2009 The Romantic Dogs in Verse. Here's an excerpt:

Having read most of the prose record in a kind of Bolaño fever over the summer, I wondered at first what The Romantic Dogs could add. I found that Bolaño’s poems hold the magnifying glass between the ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 11 07:50:53 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 13 10:44:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed May 13 19:50:12 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 20:00:06 -0700 2009
reading what came after in his fiction, its hard to see the same writer in the two. come to think of it, the list of great poets/writers who were also great writers/poets is pretty short.

funny though that bolano thought o...more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 15:54:40 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 11:09:06 -0700 2009 "... Ni la lluvia, ni el llant...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 16 23:39:09 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 02 19:09:57 -0800 2009
Godzilla in Mexico

Listen carefully, my son: bombs were falling
over Mexico City
but no one even noticed.
The air carried poison through
the streets and open windows.
You'd just finished eating and were watching
cartoons on TV.
I was readin...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 10:54:17 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 10:57:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 06 18:01:46 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 18:04:47 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jun 16 21:12:42 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 21:13:37 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Feb 08 18:07:57 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 16:37:58 -0800 2009 I don't know what the fuss is about. Maybe it's the translation - which looks literal (the book is bilingual).
Maybe there's something wrong with me - am I TOO old ? should I worry ?]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3424994