Name: the complete poetry
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Author: César Vallejo
ISBN: 9780520261730

Type

Physical Book

Author

César Vallejo

Translated by

Clayton Eshleman

Illustrated by

Clayton Eshleman

Publisher

University of California Press

Language

English

Pages

732

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.5x4.3 cm

Weight

0.95 kg.

ISBN

0520261739

ISBN13

9780520261730

Synopsis "the complete poetry"

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César 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.

César Vallejo

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César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (Santiago de Chuco, March 16, 1892-Paris, April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet and writer. He is considered one of the greatest innovators of universal poetry of the 20th century and the leading figure in Peruvian literature.

He is, in the opinion of critic Thomas Merton, «the greatest Catholic poet since Dante, and by Catholic I mean universal» and, according to Martin Seymour-Smith, «the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language».

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