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The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
César Vallejo
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Description for The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
Paperback. Includes the collections "The Black Heralds" (1918), "Trilce" (1922), "Human Poems" (1939), and "Spain, Take This Cup from Me" (1939). This edition includes a translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Peruvian Cesar Vallejo's poetry. Editor(s): Eshleman, Clayton. Num Pages: 736 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1004.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
736
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520261730
SKU
V9780520261730
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About César Vallejo
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
"Conveys, in all its boldness and vigour, the unmistakable voice of Cesar Vallejo." London Review Of Books