{"product_id":"9780811218016","title":"The Romantic Dogs: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eListed 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.\u003cbr\u003eRoberto 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....\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020727501040,"sku":"9780811218016","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811218016_p0.jpg?v=1763809020","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811218016","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}