Chilean Poet Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003)

He died at the age of fifty in Barcelona, thousands of miles from home in Chile. I am currently reading a collection of his short stories issued under the title The Return. It made me look up some of his poetry, where I found the following:

My Literary Career

Rejections from Anagrama, Grijalbo, Planeta, certainly also from Alfaguara,
Mondadori. A no from Muchnik, Seix Barral, Destino … all the publishers … all the readers
All the sales managers …
Under the bridge, while it rains, a golden opportunity
to take a look at myself:
like a snake in the North Pole, but writing.
Writing poetry in the land of idiots.
Writing with my son on my knee.
Writing until night falls
with the thunder of a thousand demons.
The demons who will carry me to hell,
but writing.

The proper names in the first two lines are the names of publishing companies, mostly in Spain where Bolaño was living at the time.