Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Vallejo, Cesar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143105302 ISBN 13: 9780143105305

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008

Synopsis

Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo’s work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant-garde poet’s politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden’s new translation does full justice to Vallejo’s complex literary style. Including Spanish and English versions of more than eighty poems that span his career, this volume is certain to become the leading collection of Vallejo’s work for years to come.

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About the Author:

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (1892 -1938) was a Peruvian poet. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143105302
• ISBN 13: 9780143105305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Stavans Ilan