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🦋 Antipoetry

(Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.)

Today at MobyLives, Tom McCartan has written the first installment of their series on Roberto Bolaño's reading habits -- this one is about Nicanor Parra, Chilean anti-poet of my dreams. Bolaño believed that Parra's poetry will "endure... along with the poetry of Borges, of Vallejo, of Cernuda and a few others.... But this, we have to say it, doesn't matter too much."

Gives me a nice opening to mention that I read the opening pages of The Savage Detectives in a book shop this morning, and it moved several spots up on my priority list of what to read next -- just a hilarious book.

posted evening of Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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➪	MobyLives, the blog of Melville House Publishing, will be posting a series examining BolaÃ±o's readings -- the prefatory post today mentions Borges, Cervantes, CortÃ¡zar, Perec, Kafka, and more.

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