Throughout his life, Cesar 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...
Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) was born in Peru to a family of mixed
Spanish and native descent. He wrote two books of poetry, the
second of which was partly composed during a short prison term.
Disappointed by the reception of his poetry in his own country,
Vallejo moved to Paris, where he became active in Marxist politics
and the antifascist campaign in Spain, while publishing essays,
political -articles, a play, and short stories. Vallejo died in
Paris, in utter poverty, on the day Franco's armies entered
Madrid.
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