The Black Heralds

by César Vallejo, Rebecca Seiferle (Translator)

Overview

Vallejo radically and fundamentally challenges the canon of Western culture as no other Latin American writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556591990
Publisher:	Copper Canyon Press
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Series:	Lannan Literary Selections
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.70(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

César Vallejo was a celebrated Peruvian poet and considered among the greatest poets of the 20th century. He also wrote several novels and plays, some of which were never performed during his lifetime. Richard Schaaf is a translator who has also rendered works by Pablo Neruda into English. Kathleen Ross is a translator of books that include Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism and The Initials of the Earth.

Table of Contents

	Cesar Vallejo: The Thread of Indigenous Blood	xiii
	The Black Heralds	3
	Nimble Ceilings / Plafones agiles
	Sacred Defoliation	7
	Communion	9
	Nervous Fit of Anguish	11
	Gunwales of Ice	13
	Christmas Eve	15
	Embers	17
	Midlight	19
	Willow	21
	Absent	23
	Ostrich	25
	Under the Poplars	27
	Divers / Buzos
	The Spider	31
	Babel	33
	Pilgrimage	35
	The Narrow Theater Box	37
	Of the Earth / De la tierra
	.........?	41
	The Poet to His Beloved	43
	Summer	45
	September	47
	Dregs	49
	Godless Woman	51
	The Black Cup	53
	Untimely Time	55
	Fresco	57
	Chalk	59
	Imperial Nostalgias / Nostalgias imperiales
	Imperial Nostalgias
I63
II63
III65
IV67
	Leaves of Ebony	69
	Autochthonic Tercet
I73
II73
III75
	Prayer of the Road	77
	Huaco	79
	May	81
	Rustic	85
	Dead Idyll	89
	Thunderclaps / Truenos
	In the Greek Tents	93
	Agape	95
	Voice of the Mirror	97
	White Rose	99
	Win a Thousand	101
	Our Bread	103
	Absolute	107
	Capitulation	109
	Nude in Clay	111
	Lines	113
	Forbidden Love	115
	The Miserable Supper	117
	For the Impossible Soul of My Beloved	119
	Eternal Bridal Bed	121
	The Stones	123
	Retablo	125
	Pagan Woman	127
	The Eternal Dice	129
	Weary Circles	131
	Lives of the Saints	133
	Rain	135
	Love	137
	God	139
	Unity	141
	Mule Drivers	143
	Hearth Songs / Canciones de hogar
	The Adjustment of Fever	147
	Distant Footsteps	149
	To My Brother Miguel	151
	Januaraeneid	153
	Exegesis	157
	Notes and Original Versions	161
	About the Author	187
	About the Translator	195
	Index of Spanish Titles	197

Editorial Reviews

"Few poets have ever expressed the human condition as Vallejo did . . . From the very first line, the discerning reader is convinced that what follows will be a profound literary experience, a view of life perceived from a harrowingly surrealistic perspective."  —Library Journal

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