Cesar Vallejo, Author Syracuse University Press $24.95 (133p) ISBN 978-0-8156-0226-2
The characters in this 1931 agitprop novel by the celebrated Peruvian poet Vallejo (who died in 1938) are all stereotypes. Mr. Taik, pipe-smoking manager of a U.S. mining company, drools arrogant paternalism. Fat, crafty Jose Marino, labor...
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Cesar Vallejo, Author, Clayton Eshleman, Editor, Mario Vargas Llosa, Foreword by , trans. from the Spanish by Clayton Eshleman. Univ. of California $49.95 (717p) ISBN 978-0-520-24552-5
Less famous than Neruda or Lorca, the Peruvian Vallejo (1892–1938) may stand as their equal among the great Spanish language modernists. At times more demanding than both—and just as devoted to "eternal love," "animal purity&#
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Gerard Malanga. Three Rooms (PGW, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (278p) ISBN 978-0-9895125-7-2
Peruvian-Parisian writer Vallejo (1892–1938), one of the great Spanish-language modernists, became both a searing poet of linguistic innovation and a heartbreaking writer on human disconnection. Americans do not lack for versions of Vallejo, but...
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Cesar Vallejo, Author, Clayton Eshleman, Translator Marsilio Publishers $28 (0p) ISBN 978-0-941419-50-5
It is unfortunate that Eshleman's excellent translation of this extremely complex work appears just two months after Rebecca Seiferle's translation (Sheep Meadow Press). Eshleman has been translating Vallejo for over 30 years, and his edition of the
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Cesar Vallejo, Author, Stanley Moss, Editor, Rebecca Seiferle, Translator Sheep Meadow Press $12.95 (195p) ISBN 978-1-878818-12-6
Vallejo's poetry combines excruciatingly personal emotions with imagery that at first appears facetious but turns out to be wordplay with a larger purpose. ``Hot bakery of my former biscuits, / pure egg yolk childlike innumerable, mother,'' begins...
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César Vallejo, edited and trans. from the Spanish by Joseph Mulligan. Wesleyan Univ., $24.95 trade paper (188p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7723-8
This first complete English translation of Vallejo’s inventive prose work gives readers the context necessary to appreciate Vallejo’s text in relation to its volatile and singular historical moment. Written in part from Trujillo Central Jail and...
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