A newly translated edition of César Vallejo’s monumental ‘Trilce’

“[Vallejo] saw the world in piercing flashes of outrage and anguish, terror and pity.... A passionate, tragic poet, he mourned our loss of moral innocence and despaired of the injustice that moves the world.” —Edith Grossman, Los Angeles Times Book Review TRILCE César Vallejo Translated from the Spanish and with glosses by William Rowe and Helen Dimos César Vallejo's Trilce, first published in 1922, transformed poetry in Spanish utterly, remaking the substance of verse from the word up. Rich in startling neologisms and other forms of verbal play, Trilce is a blazingly vivid revelation of what poetry can be, at once a love poem, a poem of erotic urgency and frustration, a poem of family life, of political fury, a lament for the dead, a work of intense privacy and an address to the world. As a whole, the work may be said to constitute a profound reckoning with time—the time of literary forms and their conjunctions with social and political time; the time of indigenous and traditional cultural forms—which also works to create a new poetic now. Haunting and incantatory, Vallejo's complex set of poems speaks powerfully to us, as we in our time seek to find what needs to be made present. In this new bilingual edition of Trilce—the recipient of the prestigious Premio Valle Inclán for the best translation from Spanish into English—the translators Helen Dimos and William Rowe accompany each poem with a gloss. Their incisive commentary on these legendarily challenging poems opens them up to new understanding while inviting readers to find their own pathways to and through them. BUY THE BOOK   For three days only, Trilce is available at 25% off along with three other books translated from the Spanish in the NYRB Poets series: MIGRATIONS POEM, 1976–2020 Gloria Gervitz BUY THE BOOK MAQROLL’S PRAYERS AND OTHER POEMS Álvaro Mutis BUY THE BOOK SILVINA OCAMPO BUY THE BOOK   Read two poems from Trilce   You are receiving this message because you signed up for email newsletters from NYRB. You can choose the types of mailings you wish to receive: Update preferences   New York Review Books 207 East 32nd Street New York, NY 10016-6305 Not a subscriber? Sign up for our newsletter here. Unsubscribe