To Rafael Méndez Dorich, February 17, 1928 309
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, March 17, 1928 309
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, April 26, 1928 310
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1928 310
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, December 27, 1928 311
Notebooks
Entries from 1926–1928 313
From Human Poems
Good Sense 317
I Am Going to Speak of Hope 318
“No one lives in the house” 319
Height and Hair 319
Hat, Overcoat, Gloves 320
Black Stone on a White Stone 320
“And don’t say another word to me” 321
“It was Sunday in the clear ears of my jackass” 322
“Today I like life much less” 322
Epistle to the Passersby 323
The Hungry Man’s Rack 324
“Considering coldly” 325
“Idle on a stone” 326
Paris, October 1936 328
“And if after so many words” 328
Telluric and Magnetic 329
“The miners came out of the mine” 331
From Reflections at the Foot of the Kremlin
8. Literature: A Meeting of Bolshevik Writers 333
9. The Day of a Stonemason: Love, Sports, Alcohol, and Democracy 336
14. Film: Russia Inaugurates a New Era on the Silver Screen 355
From Russia Facing the Second Five-Year Plan
What Is the Workers’ Club? 360
Workers Discuss Literature 360
The Mechanical Landscape 362
Art and Revolution 363
Dialectics and Manual Labor 364
Articles and Chronicles
The Lessons of Marxism 367
The Youth of America in Europe 369
Megalomania of a Continent 371
The Economic Meaning of Traffic 373
New Poetry from the United States 374
Buried Alive 377
From Warsaw to Moscow 380
Mundial in Russia 381
Mundial in Eastern Europe 383
Three Cities in One 385
Latest Theater News from Paris 387
An Incan Chronicle 389
The Incas, Revived 390
From Tungsten
Chapter 1 398
Paco Yunque 426
From Brothers Colacho
Act 1, Scene 1 439
Act 1, Scene 2 452
Letters
To Néstor P. Vallejo, October 27, 1929 468
To José Carlos Mariátegui, October 17, 1929 468
To Gerardo Diego, January 6, 1930 469
To Gerardo Diego, January 27, 1932 470
To Juan Larrea, January 29, 1932 471
Notebooks
Entries from 1929–1935 473
Articles and Chronicles
Recent Discoveries in the Land of the Incas 485
The Andes and Peru 487
Man and God in Incan Sculpture 489
The Great Cultural Lessons of the Spanish Civil War 491
Popular Statements of the Spanish Civil War 493
The Writer’s Responsibility 496
From Human Poems
“Today I would like to be happy willingly” 501
Poem to Be Read and Sung 501
“The tip of man” 502
“My chest wants and does not want its color” 503
“I stayed on to warm up the ink” 504
“The peace, the wausp, the shoe heel, the slopes” 505
“Confidence in glasses, not in the eye” 506
“Alfonso: you are looking at me” 506
“Chances are, I’m another” 508
The Book of Nature 508
“The anger that breaks the man into children” 509
Intensity and Height 510
Guitar 510
The Nine Monsters 511
“A man walks by with a baguette on his shoulder” 513
The Soul That Suffered from Being Its Body 514
“Let the millionaire walk naked, stark naked!” 515
“The fact is the place where I put on” 517
“In short, I have nothing with which” 518
The Wretched 519
Sermon on Death 521
From Spain, Take This Cup from Me
I. Hymn to the Volunteers for the Republic 523
III. “He used to write with his big finger in the air” 527