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This edition prints in facsimile the fifty-two handwritten manuscripts by Cesar Vallejo discovered recently. These manuscripts - which should not be confused with the typescripts which were published in Georgette's 1968 Francisco Moncloa edition - are a combination of early drafts of the majority of the dated poems of the Poemas humanos as well as a substantial number of the poems which would subsequently come together as Espana, aparta de mi este caliz. These manuscripts show how, from early September until mid-December 1937, Vallejo was writing poetry at a frantic pace, alternating between his Civil War verse and those poems with a more personal orientation. For the first time scholars will be able to see for themselves the original handwritten drafts of Vallejo's posthumous poems, and compare them with the subsequent typewritten versions. The facsimile reproductions are accompanied by two essays by Juan Fló - one of which explains the circumstances leading to his discovery of the manuscripts, the other of which evaluates the originality of Vallejo's verse - and an essay by Stephen M Hart which analyses the various stages of composition evident in the poems, from early manuscript draft to final typescript version. ... Read more

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Cesar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went through a number of crucial phases in the 1920s and 1930s, ranging from 'poesia comprometida' to non-committed, politically disillusioned poetry, before concluding in a set of fifteen poems dedicated to the Spanish Civil War which, against all the odds, fuse the best aspects of Marxism with the best of Christianity. ... Read more

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A collection of essays using theories of the poetic sign in order to examine the work of Cesar Vallejo. Both traditional and contemporary poetics are considered in this text, and such perspectives as feminism, postcolonial and postructural are present in the discussion of metaphor and socialism. ... Read more

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Cesar Vallejo is one the greatest Spanish-language poets of the 20th century, his monument being the book-length sequence "Trilce" (a translation of which is published simultaneously with this volume). After the publication of "Trilce", he published numerous essays and a didactic novel, but did not collect any of his subsequent poems for book publication. Since his death, these poems have usually been referred to as the Posthumous Poems or, collectively, as the "Poemas Humanos" after the title of one of the posthumous collections. This volume brings together all of the post-"Trilce" work that has been identified by the latest scholarship and included in the most recent Peruvian edition of the author's works. The Spanish texts have benefited from a number of corrections, as compared to previous publications, and the poems are presented chronologically - in so as far as the chronology can be ascertained. The book offers the most complete version yet of this magnificent body of work. The translations are by the award-winning Irish poet-translator, Michael Smith, and the Peruvian scholar Valentino Gianuzzi. ... Read more