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Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form. When asked, What makes you believe you re a better poet than a novelist? Bolano replied, The poetry makes me blush less .

In 1993, fearing for his health, Bolano began collecting the poetry he had written since his arrival in Spain in 1977. This bilingual edition of The Unknown University represents the author s definitive work in his preferred medium.

With poems written in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized, The Unknown University is a showcase of Bolano s gift for freely crossing genres. It confirms once again the undeniable genius of this giant of Latin American literature.