Poemas Humanos

Name: Poemas Humanos
Author: Cesar Vallejo

by Cesar Vallejo

Late poems exploring human solidarity, suffering, and social injustice

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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.

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