num_pages: 154
description: Roberto Bolao (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.
language: English
title: The Romantic Dogs
publisher: New Directions