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Profound poetry exploring human suffering and isolation.

When you feel an urge to connect with profound human emotions and navigate the depths of existential crisis, "The Black Heralds" is a compelling choice. Vallejo's mastery takes you through a journey of political passions and the struggle against forces that shape the marginalized existences. The rawness in his verses might echo within and offer you a unique solidarity with the human spirit.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9781556591990
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Poetry

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Throughout his life, César Vallejo (1892-1938) focused on human suffering and the isolation of people victimized by inexplicable forces. One of the great Spanish language poets, he merged radical politics and language consciousness, resulting in the first examples of a truly new world poetry. The Black Heralds is Vallejo's first book and contains a wide range of poems, from love sonnets in which he struggles to free his erotic life from the bounds of Spanish Catholicism to the linguistically inventive sequence, "Imperial Nostalgias," where he parodies with considerable savagery the pastoral romanticism of Indian and rural life. In this bilingual volume, translator Rebecca Seiferle attempts to undo the "colonization" of Vallejo in other translations. As Seiferle writes in her introduction: "Reading and translating Vallejo has been a long process of trying to meet him on his own terms, to discover what those terms were within the contexts of his particular time and, finally, taking his word for it." from "Our Bread" And in this frigid hour, when the earth smells of human dust and is so sad, I want to knock on every door and beg forgiveness of I don't know whom, and bake bits of fresh bread for him, here, in the oven of my heart...! César Vallejo (1892-1938) was born in Peru to a family
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Profound poetry exploring human suffering and isolation.

When you feel an urge to connect with profound human emotions and navigate the depths of existential crisis, "The Black Heralds" is a compelling choice. Vallejo's mastery takes you through a journey of political passions and the struggle against forces that shape the marginalized existences. The rawness in his verses might echo within and offer you a unique solidarity with the human spirit.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.