Selected Writings of César Vallejo. César Vallejo

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      Selected Writings of CÉSAR VALLEJO

      WESLEYAN POETRY

       publication of this book is funded by the

      BEATRICE FOX AUERBACH FOUNDATION FUND

       at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

       Selected Writings of

      CÉSAR VALLEJO

      Edited by JOSEPH MULLIGAN

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown, CT 06459

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Vallejo, César, 1892–1938.

      [Works. Selections. English]

      Selected writings of César Vallejo / edited [and translated]

      by Joseph Mulligan.

      pages cm.—(Wesleyan poetry series)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Summary: “Selected Writings of César Vallejo has all the best writing of a major Spanish modernist”—provided by publisher.

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7484-8 (cloth: alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8195-7525-8 (ebook)

      1. Vallejo, César, 1892–1938—Translations into English. I. Mulligan, Joseph W., 1981– editor, translator. II. Title.

      PQ8497.V35A2 2015

      861′.62—dc23 2014048342

      5 4 3 2 1

       publication of this book is funded by the

      BEATRICE FOX AUERBACH FOUNDATION FUND

       at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

      Front cover: César Vallejo in Nice, 1929, by an unknown photographer. Image courtesy of Gladys Flores Heredia. (Original image from the archive of the National Library of Peru.)

      CONTENTS

       Acknowledgments xv

       Introduction xvii

       Note on This Edition lxxiii

       List of Translators lxxvii

       BOOK ONE: 1915–1919

       From Romanticism in Castilian Poetry

       Introduction 3

       Critique of Romanticism 4

       From The Black Heralds

       The Black Heralds 16

       The Spider 16

       The Poet to His Lover 17

       Dregs 18

       The Black Cup 18

       Imperial Nostalgias 19

       Ebony Leaves 21

       Autochthonous Tercet 22

       Huaco 24

       Dead Idyll 24

       Agape 25

       The Voice in the Mirror 25

       Our Bread 26

       The Miserable Supper 27

       The Eternal Dice 28

       Distant Footsteps 28

       To My Brother Miguel 29

       Januneid 30

       Epexegesis 31

       Articles and Chronicles

       With Manuel González Prada 33

       With José María Eguren 35

       Abraham Valdelomar Has Died 37

       Letters

       To Óscar Imaña, January 29, 1918 38

       To Óscar Imaña, August 2, 1918 40

       To Manuel Natividad Vallejo, December 2, 1918 41