Framing Roberto Bolaño

Poetry fiction literary history and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bolao''s work have established him as a representative generational figure in not only Chile Mexico and Spain the three principal locations of his life and work but throughout Europe and the Americas increasingly on a global scale. At the heart of Bolao''s ''poemas-novela'' his poet- and poetry-centered novels is the history and legacy of the prose poem. Challenging the policing of boundaries between verse and prose poetry and fiction the literary and the non-literary the aesthetic and the political his prose poem novels offer a sustained literary history by other means a pivotal intervention that restores poetry and literature to full capacity. Framing Roberto Bolao is one of the first books to trace the full arc and development of Bolao''s work from the beginning to the end of his career.