SPAIN, TAKE THIS CHALICE FROM ME AND OTHER POEMS

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 introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden’s translation does full justice to Vallejo’s complex literary style. Includes Spanish and English versions of more than eighty poems that span his career.