This 1976 book was the first full-length study in English of the
poetry of the Peruvian Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938). A major poet, who
approached the problem of revolutionary aesthetics in a manner
radically different from that of his contemporaries, Vallejo was
comparatively little known outside the Spanish-speaking world. This
neglect is attributable to the difficulty of a poetry which
deliberately resists interpretation and assimilation into the
established order of things. Professor Franco's book is therefore
an exploration of the problems of poetic production. In the opening
biographical chapter, she shows the kind of social constraints
which limited what the poet could say, which led him in Trilce
(1922) to write a hermetic poetry using euphemism, pun and
indirection. She goes on to explore Vallejo's later poetry, which
was shaped by the Spanish Civil War and gestures towards the
tentative nature of humanity and civilisation that gives the poetry
its abiding relevance.
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