Trilce (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Vallejo, César

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819564214 ISBN 13: 9780819564214

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (2001)

César Vallejo was born in Peru in 1892. In 1921 he spent three months in prison where he wrote some of the poems in Trilce. In 1923 he left for Paris, where he co-founded a cell of the Peruvian Communist Party. He traveled to Russia, and to Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He died in Paris in 1938, in absolute poverty, devastated by the fall of the Spanish Republic.

Trilce, published the same year as Eliot's Waste Land and also masterpiece of early modernism, is a ground-breaking work that has had an indelible effect on all subsequent poetry in its language. It contains 77 poems considered to be Vallejo's most complex and radical work.

About this title

From the Publisher:

6 x 9 trim. 1 illus. LC 00-040418

From the Author:

I have been reading Vallejo in the original since 1970 and was persuaded to undertake the translation of this, his most difficult work, only by something analogous to a gravitational pull. My aim in translating this most difficult work was to create English poems, poems that would work in English in the same way that the original works in Spanish. Those who know Spanish have access to the original, but a translation exists to bring the work over into another tongue, to create the poem for the reader who has no access to the original. I also hoped that, in the process, I would be able to convey the multidimensionality of Vallejo's poems, and, that the reader who is able to read both English and Spanish, would hear in the dialogue between the original and my translation, another third possibility. I also hoped to place Vallejo's work into its proper context, as a work of indigenous blood, to paraphrase Vallejo himself, as aspect of his work which has been critically overlooked, despite his own words on the subject.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0819564214
• ISBN 13: 9780819564214
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304