The Complete Poetry A Bilingual Edition [Paperback]

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian C?sar 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 collectionsThe Black Heralds(1918),Trilce(1922),Human Poems(1939), andSpain, 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 visionperhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literaturein 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.

Poet and essayistClayton Eshlemanis a recipient of the National Book Award and the Landon Translation Prize. He is the cotranslator ofC?sar Vallejo: The Complete Posthumous PoetryandAim? C?saire: The Collected Poetry,both from UC Press. AmongMario 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 Kristalis Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.Stephen M. Hartis Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College, London.

C?sar Vallejo is the greatest Catholic poet since Danteand by Catholic I mean universal. Thomas Merton, author ofThe Seven Storey Mountain

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