The Complete Poetry

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spani... Les mer

The Complete Poetry

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections "The Black Heralds" (1918), "Trilce" (1922), "Human Poems" (1939), and "Spain, Take This Cup from Me" (1939). Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision - perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature - in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work.

Contents Foreword / Mario Vargas Llosa Acknowledgments Introduction / Efrain Kristal Los heraldos negros --The Black Heralds Plafones agiles -- Agile Soffits Buzos -- Divers De la tierra -- Of the Earth Nostalgias imperiales -- Imperial Nostalgias Truenos -- Thunderclaps Canciones de hogar -- Songs of Home Trilce Poemas humanos -- Human Poems I II Espana, aparta de mi este caliz -- Spain, Take This Cup from Me Afterword: A Translation Memoir Appendix: A Chronology of Vallejo's Life and Works / Stephen M. Hart Notes Bibliography Index of Spanish Titles and First Lines Index of English Titles and First Lines

Poet and essayist Clayton Eshleman is a recipient of the National Book Award and the Landon Translation Prize. He is the cotranslator of Cesar Vallejo: The Complete Posthumous Poetry and Aime Cesaire: The Collected Poetry, both from UC Press. Among Mario Vargas Llosa's prestigious literary awards are the National Critics' Prize, the Peruvian National Prize, and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. He is the author of more than twenty books. Efrain Kristal is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College, London. Lukk