The Romantic Dogs - The Poems

The Poems

• The Romantic Dogs
• Self Portrait at Twenty Years
• Resurrection
• In the Reading Room of Hell
• Soni
• Ernesto Cardenal and I
• Day Bleeding Rain
• The Worm

A poem of a man repeatedly described as "a worm with a straw hat/ and an assassin's glare". The character is also the subject of Bolaño's short story of the same name ("El Gusano" in Spanish, though translated as "The Grub" in Chris Andrews's translation included in Last Evenings on Earth).

• Lupe

A poem of a young prostitute who loses her son; a character of the same name and background appears in The Savage Detectives

• The Front Line
• La Francesa
• The Outsider Ape
• Dirty, Poorly Dressed
• I Dreamt of Frozen Detectives
• The Detectives
• The Lost Detectives
• The Frozen Detectives
• Fragments
• The Ghost of Edna Lieberman
• Visit to the Convalescent
• Godzilla in Mexico
• Verses by Juan Ramón

A poem incorporating verses by Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez from the poem "La carbonerilla quemada".

• Dino Campana Revises His Biography in Castel Pulci Psychiatric Hospital
• Palingenesis
• The Nurses
• Twilight in Barcelona
• The Greek
• Mr. Wiltshire
• Rain
• Luck
• X-Rays
• The Last Love Song of Pedro J. Lastarria, Alias "El Chorito"
• My Life in the Tubes of Survival
• On the Edge of the Cliff
• Roadster
• The Last Savage
• Half-Baked
• Atole
• The Donkey
• Parra's Footsteps

An homage to Chilean poet Nicanor Parra

• I'll Try to Forget
• Muse
• With the Flies