Escribiendo poesia en el pais de los imbeciles. / Escribiendo con mi hijo en las rodillas. / Escribiendo hasta que cae la noche / con un estruendo de los mil demonios. / Los demonios que han de llevarme al infierno, / pero escribiendo.

Bolano se sintio siempre, en esencia, un poeta, pese a que el reconocimiento le llego por su narrativa. Este volumen recoge, ademas de los publicados en La Universidad Desconocida, Los perros romanticos y Tres, los poemas que aparecieron en revistas, plaquettes y volumenes colectivos en sus comienzos literarios y que desde entonces han permanecido inencontrables.
En todos ellos ahonda en los temas fundamentales de su obra: el amor, la muerte, el exilio, la literatura… La economia expresiva, la audacia formal y tematica, el vanguardismo y la tension poetica convierten a Bolano en uno de los exponentes mas singulares de la poesia contemporanea en espanol.

Vio en la poesia una forma de rebeldia y una intriga existencial que engrandecia la vida. Es curioso, porque sin esa apelacion a la poesia no se puede entender el conjunto de su obra. Hay poesia escondida en sus novelas y hay novelas interrumpidas en su poesia. Porque todo son palabras. Como todo son palabras, Bolano busco aquellas que mas dolian o mas decian, o mas escondian, o mas cercanas estaban de lo que vivio .

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Writing poetry in a country of idiots. / Writing with my
son on my lap. / Writing until night falls / with a roar of a thousand
demons. / The demons who are to take me to hell, / but writing none the less.

Despite all the recognition that he received for his narrative work, in
essence, Bolano always saw himself as a poet. In addition to those poems
published in La Universidad Desconocida / The
Unknown University, Los perros romanticos / The Romantic Dogs, and Tres/ Three, this volume also collects his poems published in magazines and
collections and have since remained hard to find collectables. In all of them
he explores the recurring fundamental themes in his works: love, death,
exile, literature … All of these, and his poetic drive, make Bolano a
unique exponent of contemporary poetry in Spanish.

He saw in poetry a form of rebellion and an existential intrigue that
magnified life. It’s interesting that without that appeal to poetry the whole
of his work would not be understood. There is hidden poetry in his novels and
there are interrupted novels in his poetry. Because everything is words. As
they are all words, Bolano looked for those words that hurt the most or said
the most, or hid the most, or were closest to what he was living .