Babel

Roberto Bolaño’s own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. 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 traveling north from Chile to Peru and Ecuador....

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Nació el 5 de Diciembre de 1,959 en el preámbulo de los sesenta a “2,600 metros más cerca del cielo” como bien dice el lema de la bella Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia. Creció entre la sencillez, sabiduría y elocuencia de su padre, y el cuidado, las manos tiernas y la paciencia de su madre. Entre la fantasía y la complicidad de sus hermanos Mario y Adriana. Desde chico fué mágicamente hipnotizado por los colores y las formas. Sus primeras armas fueron los lápices de colores y las acuarelas con las que pintó su infancia. Cuando dejó esos días tempranos descubrió la...

Not since 1959 when Octavio Paz and Samuel Beckett published An Anthology of Mexican Poetry, has there been a collection which so thoroughly examines the poetry of the country known for being "too far from God and too close to the United States." Yet, as Elliott Weinberger writes in his introduction, "Americans know everything about God, but next to nothing about Mexico—few know that Mexico-particularly when compared to the United States-is a kind of paradise for poets." Reversible Monuments introduces this "paradise" to American readers. It includes major international writers like Alberto ...