César Vallejo 
The Complete Poetry 
A Bilingual Edition

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.

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Contents

Foreword / Mario Vargas Llosa

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Efraín Kristal


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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César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (1892–1938) was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. Poet and essayist Clayton Eshleman is a recipient of the National Book Award and the Landon Translation Prize. He is the cotranslator of César Vallejo: The Complete Posthumous Poetry and Aimé Césaire: 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.