Cesar Vallejo
Peruvian poet whose anguished, formally revolutionary verse stands as one of the greatest bodies of poetry in the Spanish language. Trilce shattered Spanish prosody; his later Poemas Humanos are a cry of solidarity with the suffering.
Works
- Heraldos NegrosEarly poems of suffering and spiritual questioning with modernist sensibility
- TrilceFragmented experimental poems of radical formal innovation and linguistic rupture
- Poemas HumanosLate poems exploring human solidarity, suffering, and social injustice
- Espana Aparta de Este CalizSpanish Civil War poems expressing solidarity with victims of fascism
- The Black HeraldsEarly poetry collection of melancholic tone and anguished spiritual searching
- Spain, Take This Cup from MeCivil War elegy protesting human suffering and colonial violence