The Complete Poetry

by Vallejo, Cesar

• ISBN13: 9780520261730
• ISBN10: 0520261739
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-14
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian Ceacute;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 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Los heraldos negros --The Black Heralds

Plafones ágiles -- 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

España, aparta de mí este cáliz -- 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

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