Trilce - by César Vallejo (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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 conjunctions with social and political time; the time of indigenous and traditional cultural forms; colonial time. Trilce inhabits and departs from the locating actions of these times to create a new poetic now. In Trilce, love is a pathway on which older and newer meanings collide. Haunting and incantatory, this complex set of poems speaks powerfully to us, as we seek in our own time to find what needs to be made present.

This new edition of Trilce, with translations and glosses by Helen Dimos and William Rowe, brings out with alacrity and grace the full range of intellectual and emotional resonances in these poems. And in their incisive glosses, Dimos and Rowe offer porous nets of understanding that at once situate these poems and invite readers to find their own pathways of meaning.

About the Author

William Rowe is the translator of Raúl Zurita's INRI and Antonio Cisneros's A Cruise to the Galapagos Islands. His Collected Poems were published in 2016 by Crater Press. He is an Emeritus Professor of Birkbeck College London University.

Helen Dimos is the author of the collections No Realtor Was Compensated For This Sale (The Elephants, 2017) and Intermissions & Things, Auto-bio-graphy (forthcoming). She has worked as a teacher of poetry, composition and English, as a translator principally from the Greek, and as a long-term estate executor, among other jobs. For the past decade she has been bringing together poetry events in Athens, Greece. She is currently working on The Field, an effort to tell histories of family and place through the history of a parcel of land in Crete.