ISBN: 9780330510677    Publisher: Pan Macmillan Year of publishing: 2011     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 160        Language: English

This bilingual collection of forty-four poems presents English readers with their first chance to encounter the phenomenon of Roberto Bolano as a poet: his own preferred and strongest literary persona. (When asked, 'What makes you believe that you're a better poet than a novelist?' Bolano replied, 'The poetry makes me blush less.') These poems intimate, moving, witty and wide-ranging are as diverse in form as his fiction and will offer the reader equal delight. Expertly translated from the original Spanish by Laura Healy, this is as an opportunity to encounter a poetic voice like no other; a voice hailed by Susan Sontag as 'the real thing and the rarest'.
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Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times Book Review, and won the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. His posthumous masterpiece, 2666, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
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