César Vallejo

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Poesia Completa - Cesar Vallejo
Cesar Vallejo
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Neruda and Vallejo-Selected Poems - Robert Bly, et al editor

Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems
Pablo Neruda , and Cesar Vallejo
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems
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The Complete Posthumous Poetry

ASIN: 0807064203

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"Chilean Pablo Neruda is Latin America's greatest poet and one of the finest ever to have written in the Spanish language. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo, part Indian and born in a mining village, ranks not far below Neruda. Robert Bly is one of America's foremost poets, and a translator of uncommon brilliance. The combination makes for a priceless volume." -Long Beach Press Telegram

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sublime.......2005-07-26

I found this collection very satisfying on several levels. First the translations are excellent, successfully capturing both concrete and abstract elements of both poets. Second, the careful selection by Mr. Bly of poems wonderfully illustrates the best elements of each poet, the abstract genius of Neruda and the passion of Vallejo. Third; this collection is bilingual and even if one does not speak spanish, reading and listening to the poems in the native language allows one to appreciate the rhyme schemes, tempos, alliteration etc.

Neruda and Vallejo-Selected Poems - Robert Bly, et al editor.......1999-11-30

I recently finished reading this powerful collection of works, and enjoyed it immensely. Bly does a marvellous job of capturing the mood and power of these poets, and the biographical pieces were interesting and to the point.

This collection is also bilingual, which is a great plus even if you only listen for the sound of the poetic line.

I would highly recommend it for those who have not experienced either of these fine poets. It left me hungry for more of their work.

The Black Heralds (Lannan Literary Selections)
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The Poet of Suffering

Vallejo's Language of Arrest

The Black Heralds (Lannan Literary Selections)
Cesar Vallejo
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
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Throughout his life, Cesar Vallejo (1892â€“1938) focused on human suffering and the isolation of people victimized by inexplicable forces. One of the great Spanish language poets, he merged radical politics and language consciousness, resulting in the first examples of a truly new world poetry.

The Black Heralds is Vallejo's first book and contains a wide range of poems, from love sonnets in which he struggles to free his erotic life from the bounds of Spanish Catholicism to the linguistically inventive sequence, "Imperial Nostalgias," where he parodies with considerable savagery the pastoral romanticism of Indian and rural life.

In this bilingual volume, translator Rebecca Seiferle attempts to undo the "colonization" of Vallejo in other translations. As Seiferle writes in her introduction: "Reading and translating Vallejo has been a long process of trying to meet him on his own terms, to discover what those terms were within the contexts of his particular time and, finally, taking his word for it."

from "Our Bread"

And in this frigid hour, when the earth smells of human dust and is so sad, I want to knock on every door and beg forgiveness of I don't know whom, and bake bits of fresh bread for him, here, in the oven of my heart...!

Cesar Vallejo (1892â€“1938) was born in Peru to a family of mixed Spanish and native descent. He wrote two books of poetry, the second of which was partly composed during a short prison term. Disappointed by the reception of his poetry in his own country, Vallejo moved to Paris, where he became active in Marxist politics and the antifascist campaign in Spain, while publishing essays, political -articles, a play, and short stories. Vallejo died in Paris, in utter poverty, on the day Franco's armies entered Madrid.

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The Poet of Suffering.......2003-11-13

I have not read Ms. Seiferle's translation of Los Heraldos Negros (so please ignore the rating) but I have read her translation of Trilce: this is much better than either of the others I have by David Smith and Clayton Eshelman, which would lead one to reasonably believe that her version of Vallejo's first work would exhibit most if not all of the same qualities: a receptive tenderness toward Poetic as opposed to Literal meanings, and, a rhythmic intuitiveness neccessary to good translation; something Mr. Eshelman is sadly lacking in his own work on this great Poet (Smith hardly bears up to any scrutiny at all, being non-poet, although well intentioned). But I did want to clarify two things for the uninitiated about Vallejo himself and this work: 1) Los Heraldos Negros did have another English Language publication, contrary to what the book review above is telling you: in 1990, by Latin American Literary Review Press (Richard Schaaf & Kathleen Ross were the translators). 2) Vallejo's Marxist beliefs are nowhere to be found in his poetry. This is the sort of thinking one associates with people who are only marginally aware of what Vallejo is trying to say and who thus confuse it with his later activities while in France (Los Heraldos Negros was composed Before the move, not after). The best advice here is to ignore Vallejo's public pronouncements at all times and concentrate instead upon his Poems; these will tell you what he actually thinking as well as why. You will also avoid the embarassment of linking it to any sort of politics or theory. Suffering is Vallejo's political affiliation, his literary theory, not the Marxism he was later drawn to because he could not bear to live in a world completely devoid of all practical hope. We should always bear this in mind when we recall his poetry: that he could not live without love (hope) and so chose to devote himself to Marxism because it seemed to him (then) as the best hope for a just future. That it was not only deepens the sweet/sad content (trilce) of his indisputably great poetry.

Vallejo's Language of Arrest.......2000-05-05

Readers who first encounter the militant, intellectual Vallejo stumble, as must have the first patrons of Picasso's *Guernica*, into a territory where radical politics and language consciousness cannot be divided. Famous for his revulsion at the capitalist conscious (or lack of one), Vallejo's poetry--from its most profane to its most threateningly lyrical--is an hardline education in the Marxist point of view. Middle class comfort, with its notion of safety, self-destructs on contact with Vallejo's "auroral dagger"; even in translation his verse splices the "burning coals" of the lip with the deliberate confusion of syntax and the extremities of diction.

When Vallejo proclaims "my lip/will split open into a hundred sacred petals./Tilda will hold the dagger/the flower-killing and auroral dagger!" ("Burning Coals") he places the speaker under intellectual and emotional arrest. Often with Vallejo there is no where to go but into the terrible dwellings of all experience and a life that struggles toward the new--fusing politics and romance, invention and lyric. The reader, very likely the middle class reader or writer under accusation, is faced with the impossible: syntax lures the reader into suffering. Diction becomes "a pariah's neurasthenic song," a verse of the nerve ("Leaves of Ebony"). The reader is placed on the rack of what Vallejo himself calls a "multisense of sweet unbeing" ("For the Impossible Soul of My Beloved") .

For the reader interested in poetry that works the ideals of politic and word into dangerously parabolic axes, the place to start is *The Black Heralds*. For the Marxist Vallejo with something to teach us now, the heart's language and the mind's dialectic arc into the Peruvian's "sublime parabola of love." ("For the Impossible Soul...") Perhaps Peru's greatest Modernist has something to teach us yet about the true springs of Idealism.

Cesar Vallejo: The complete posthumous poetry
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Fabolous

"Poemas Humanos" by César Vallejo

Cesar Vallejo: The complete posthumous poetry
Cesar Vallejo
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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ASIN: 0520036484

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Duende.......2006-03-13

Vallejo not only does not wear out but grows more relevant as we move forward from his death. His poetry is filled with sense switching and fantastic metaphors that serve to unhinge your thought process from linear, logical, to a mystic, hallucinatory world where The Book of Revelations seems to be rewritten in your presence.

Fabolous.......2005-08-05

Cesar Vallejo is a poet for all times, interconnected to the stars - and the earth. The translation of his poems in this book seems to be very adequate.

"Poemas Humanos" by César Vallejo.......2000-01-24

La poesía del peruano César Vallejo, representa, en sí misma, toda una antología del dolor humano; de la pobreza exacerbada; del sufrimiento peesonal y ajeno; y de la más pura, limpia y sencilla esperanza de la vida. A través de un particularísimo estilo y prosa, Vallejo nos remie a un mundo poético nunca antes visto en Latino américa y en la misma Europa. Un estilo que surge de la sangre, de los huesos, del estómago vacío y ansioso; del alma dolida, maltratada y sorprendida. La poesís de César Vallejo nos deja sin aliento y nos coje un dedo; nos jala las orejas, nos sacude el corazón y erecta nuestro deseo de ser buenos, simples, tal vez sufridos. Creo que es un libro que todo amante de la buena poesía debe tener cerca de su cama, escritorio, maleta... debe ser llevado, primordialmente, en las profundidades del intelecto y del espíritu. En los huesos, la carne, la sangre y los momentos diarios. Resulta muy difícil tratar de expresar tanta admiración en tan poco espacio. Valga mi tiempo, lectura, poesía y admiración a este enorme sencillo hombre mundano, César Vallejo.

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Complete Later Poems, 1923-1938
Cesar Vallejo
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ASIN: 0907562736

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Trilce (Sheep Meadow Poetry)
Cesar Vallejo
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Poemas Humanos - Espana, Aparta de Mi Este Caliz (Clasicos Castalia)

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Poemas Humanos - Espana, Aparta de Mi Este Caliz (Clasicos Castalia)
Cesar Vallejo
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Obra Poetica Completa/Complete Poetic Works

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Obra Poetica Completa/Complete Poetic Works
Cesar Vallejo
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Selected Poems
César Vallejo
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César Vallejo is one the greatest poets of the twentieth century. His first publication, in his native Peru, was a book called "The Black Heralds", a fine collection of lyric poems in a largely symbolist style. This was followed by the book by which he is best known, "Trilce" (1922), which has become one of the monuments of the Hispanic 'vanguardia'. After "Trilce", now resident in Europe, Vallejo wrote stories, essays, a novel, and several plays, but did not collect any of his subsequent poems for book publication. Since his death, these poems have usually been referred to as the "Poemas humanos" after the title of one of the posthumous volumes. This Selected Poems draws on both of the volumes published by Shearsman Books in 2005: "Trilce" and the "Complete Later Poems 1923-1938", and adds to this selection a group of early poems from "The Black Heralds", thus giving an overview of the author's career and a sample of the whole range of his remarkable work. The translations are by the prize-winning Irish poet-translator, Michael Smith, and the Peruvian scholar, Valentino Gianuzzi.

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