Trilce

A new translation of the Peruvian poet's most groundbreaking, infamously obstuse work, a collection that stretches the limits of human language and predicted the Surrealist movement of the 1920s and 30s. This edition of Trilce includes glosses by the translators, giving readers and deeper look into these fascinating poems and the writer behind them. César Vallejo’s Trilce , published originally in 1922 in Lima, undertakes a profound reckoning with time: the time of literary forms and their conju