Trilce

A new translation of the Peruvian poet's most groundbreaking, infamously obstuse work, a collection that stretches the limits of human language and predicted the Surrealist movement of the 1920s and 30s.

This bilingual edition of Trilce includes glosses by the translators, giving readers and deeper look into these fascinating poems and the writer behind them.

César Vallejo's Trilce, first published in 1922, transformed poetry in Spanish utterly, remaking the substance of verse from the word u...