Framing Roberto Bolaño: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics

Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bola o'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 Bola o'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 Bola o is one of the first books to trace the full arc and development of Bola o's work from the beginning to the end of his career.

Author: Jonathan Beck Monroe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/19/2021
Pages: 265
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781108735568

About the Author
Monroe, Jonathan Beck: - Jonathan Beck Monroe is a former DAAD and American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow and member of the IIEE's national Fulbright selection committee. He is the author of A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre (1987) and Demosthenes' Legacy (2009), a book of prose poems and short fiction. Co-author and editor of Writing and Revising the Disciplines (2002), Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell (2003), editor of the special issue 'Poetry, Community, Movement' of the journal Diacritics, and 'Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries' in Poetics Today. He has published widely on questions of genre, writing and disciplinary practices, innovative poetries of the past two centuries, and avant-garde movements and their contemporary legacies.

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