"the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo now has a translator worthy of his genius"
César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language.
He lived in Paris and Spain for much of his adult life. His body of work, which is deeply rooted in his European, Peruvian, and indigenous heritage, is increasingly recognized as a major contribution to global modernism. Sometimes called a surrealist poet, “Vallejo created a wrenching poetic language for Spanish that radically altered the shape of its imagery and the nature of its rhythms. … Vallejo forged a new discourse in order to express his own visceral compassion for human suffering,”
translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Paperback, 155pp
New Directions, 2025
