A deluxe edition of Bolaño's collected poetryPerhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolaño touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which "you become infinitely small without disappearing." When asked, "
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 lite
Bolaño's own preferred literary persona was as a poet. When asked, "What makes you believe you're a better poet than a novelist?" Bolaño replied, "The poetry makes me blush less."Tres, his most inventive and bracing poetry collection, is a showcase of t