| Tres Contributor(s): Bolaño, Roberto (Author), Healy, Laura (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811219275 ISBN-13: 9780811219273 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 861.64 |
| LCCN: 2011020406 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.8" W x 8.32" (0.73 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Roberto Bolan o's Tres is a showcase of the author's willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. "Prose from Autumn in Gerona," a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, "The Neochileans," is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour in the far reaches of their country. Finally, the collection ends with a series of short poems that take us on "A Stroll Through Literature" and remind us of Bolan o's masterful ability to walk the line between the comically serious and the seriously comical. |
Contributor Bio(s): Healy, Laura: - Laura Healy has received a Master's in Spanish from Harvard. She is the managing editor of Harvard Review and the web editor of Zoland Poetry.Bolano, Roberto: - Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times)," and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50. |