"The Romantic Dogs"@en . "861/.64 22" . . "978-0-8112-1801-6" . . "227016624" . . "PQ8098.12.O38 P4713 2008" . . . . "The Romantic Dogs (Los perros rom\u00E1nticos in Spanish) is a collection of poems by the Chilean author Roberto Bola\u00F1o. It was published in 2006. The bilingual edition, with English translations by Laura Healy, was published by New Directions in 2008.These 43 poems span nearly twenty years, from 1980 to 1998, embracing a wide variety of topics. Bola\u00F1o's obsession with detectives is evident in several poems, but the collection suggests other preoccupations, as in the poem \"Godzilla in Mexico.\""@en .