Tres is not just a Robert Bolaño masterpiece, it’s another Bolaño masterpiece…Bolaño’s talent resides in his ability to transport the reader to the precipice of so many things, not the least of which is a euphoric whirlwind of delight. Tres is a beautiful book that transports the reader in many strange and wonderful ways.

World Literature Today

“Poetry is braver than anyone,” Roberto Bolaño believed, and the proof is here in Tres, his most inventive and bracing poetry collection.

Tres

Poetry by Roberto Bolaño

Translated from Spanish by Laura Healy

Roberto Bolaño’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 Bolaño’s masterful ability to walk the line between the comically serious and the seriously comical.

Clothbound(published Sep, 30 2011)

ISBN
9780811219273
Price US
24.95
Page Count
178
Portrait of Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño

Twentieth-century Chilean poet and novelist

Tres is not just a Robert Bolaño masterpiece, it’s another Bolaño masterpiece…Bolaño’s talent resides in his ability to transport the reader to the precipice of so many things, not the least of which is a euphoric whirlwind of delight. Tres is a beautiful book that transports the reader in many strange and wonderful ways.

World Literature Today

They radiate the audacity of intellect, as well as the cruelty of vision, that have won their author a devoted following.

Boston Review

Raw, straightforward and crisp … striking, truly exceptional work. Beautifully unrefined.

American Book Review

Poems that unscroll like black-and-white movies or occupy pages like a tattoo, art and life entwine, and all is sinister and precious.

Booklist

Witty, sardonic poetry, the likes of which could be called ‘unimproved’ – lacking the polish of a shiny commodity. Wonderful.

Forrest Gander, The Nation

Bolaño, the phantom mega-star of global fiction since his death in 2003, thought of himself as a poet first and a novelist second. In verse, as in prose, Bolaño leads us on journeys through a surreal landscape of exile, longing, and nostalgia.

The Independent

We savor all he has written, as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius.

Patti Smith

One my best two books.

Roberto Bolaño

Its complexities amaze and treat us to an unexpected magical experience that one can sit down reading for hours until our eyes and brain go numb . . .

Gozamos Magazine