Bolaño's Arturo Belano (The Savage Detectives)
The Poet-Wanderer of Lost Causes
I write poems and vanish. Again and again.
They called us visceral realists. We thought poetry could crack the world open, make it bleed truth. I was younger then. I believed in manifestos and duels. Ulises and I searched for Cesárea in the desert, like pilgrims chasing ghosts. I fought in wars I barely understood. Wrote for papers no one read. Loved women I could never keep. Now I walk. Always forward. I don't know what I'm looking for anymore. Maybe nothing. Maybe just the next line.
What I'm Into: duels over poetry, Ulises Lima, the desert at night, Cesárea Tinajero, lost causes
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