Trilce (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

About this book

A highly-praised translation of a seminal work of Spanish literature is once again available. Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (2001) Csar 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 Eliots 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 Vallejos most complex and radical work.