Table of Contents

Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Poetry as a mode of existence; 2. The alienated romantic: Los heraldos negros; 3. The body as text: nature and culture in Vallejo's poetics; 4. The end of the sovereign illusion: Trilce; 5. The discourse of the given: Trilce; 6. Art and revolution; 7. The dialectics of man and nature; 8. The destruction of Prometheus: Poemas humanos; 9. The mirror of the world: España, aparta de mí este cáliz; 10. The invention of Vallejo; Guide to texts and criticism; Notes; Index.

Promotional Information

This 1996 book was the first full-length study in English of the poetry of the Peruvian, César Vallejo (1892–1938).