Against Professional Secrets

Roof Books, long known for publishing living writers, just couldn’ t resist treating its readers to this previously untranslated prose work of Cé sar Vallejo in Against Professional Secrets. These poems brilliantly translated by Joseph Mulligan attack the received wisdom of poets in favor of a completely lived existence. Collected from a cardboard box in Vallejo’ s archive, this volume represents a series of prose poems that were selected by the author for publication along with material th...