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                    Sam Burt @wordsburt
                  
                  
                    
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                      Jun 19, 2018
                    
                  
                
                - Curated in Must-read Novels About Writers
 
“Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano’s acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the ‘Mother of Mexican Poetry,’ hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University.”