Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems

The Black Heralds

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 fi

Trilce

'Trilce' is one of the great monuments of 20th-Century Hispanic poetry, as important in Hispanic letters as 'The Wasteland' and 'The Cantos' in the anglophone world, and all the more amazing for having been composed in remote Peru. Full of neologisms and

The Complete Poetry

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volu

The Complete Posthumous Poetry

The Translation judges for the National Book Awards - Richard Miller, Alastair Reid, Eliot Weinberger - cites Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia's translation of Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry as follows:"This, the first National Book

Poemas Humanos / Human Poems

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (Santiago de Chuco, 1892-1938, París). Perú. Sus padres eran Francisco de Paula Vallejo Benítez y María de los Santos Mendoza Gurrionero. Fue el menor de once hermanos. Su tez mestiza se debe que sus abuelas fueron india

Above the River: The Complete Poems

One of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, sturdy, and generous poems with an honesty, clarity, and stylistic range matched by very few--then or now. From his Deep Image-inspired lyrics to his Wht

Wandering

On May 2, 1919, Hesse wrote to Romain Rolland: "I have had to bear a very heavy burden in my personal life in recent years. Now I am about to go to Ticino once again, to live for a while as a hermit in nature and in my work." In 1920, after settling in th

The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright

This moving, eighteen-month exchange of correspondence chronicles the friendship-through-the-mail of two extraordinary writers. Leslie Marmon Silko is a poet and novelist. James Wright won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his "Collected Poems." They met onl

Collected Poems

A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.