基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. 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 Spanin, Take This Cup from Me (1939).
Full Description
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 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.
Contents
Contents Foreword / Mario Vargas Llosa Acknowledgments Introduction / Efrain Kristal Los heraldos negros --The Black Heralds Plafones agiles -- 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 Espana, aparta de mi este caliz -- 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
