Who is Cesar Vallejo

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16, 1892 – April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. He was always a step ahead of literary currents, and each of his books was distinct from the others, and, in its own sense, revolutionary. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.

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Cesar Vallejo Poems

  • Epà­stola A Los Transeàºntes
    REANUDO mi día de conejo
    mi noche de elefante en descanso.

    Y, entre mi, digo: ...
  • Himno A Los Voluntarios De La Repàºblica
    Voluntario de España, miliciano
    de huesos fidedignos, cuando marcha a morir tu corazón,
    cuando marcha a matar con su agonía
    mundial, no sé verdaderamente ...
  • To My Brother Miguel In Memoriam
    Brother, today I sit on the brick bench of the house,
    where you make a bottomless emptiness.
    I remember we used to play at this hour, and mama
    caressed us: "But, sons..." ...
  • Bordas De Hielo
    Vengo a verte pasar todos los días,
    vaporcito encantado siempre lejos...
    Tus ojos son dos rubios capitanes;
    tu labio es un brevísimo pañuelo ...
  • Los Heraldos Negros
    Hay golpes en la vida tan fuertes . . . ¡Yo no se!
    Golpes como del odio de Dios; como si ante ellos;
    la resaca de todo lo sufrido se empozara en el alma
    ¡Yo no se! ...
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Son 5 Alone 2 Great 2 Animal 2 Soul 2 Death 2 Away 2 Shadow 2 Sea 2 Black 2


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Optajoao: 1 - sebastián 'el loco' abreu played one match against botafogo in conmebol competitions (a loss with audax italiano by 1-2 in sudamericana 2018). the former botafogo striker is now the coach of universidad césar vallejo, rival of the glorioso in sudamericana's group a. memories.
Infinita_fiori: death is a being been by force, whose beginning and end i carry engraved at the head of my illusions. césar vallejo tr. clayton eshleman
Arunkum38053152: my god ,if you had been a man , today you would know how to be god; but you always lived so well, that now you feel nothing of your creation. and the man suffers you: he is god... cesar vallejo
Artsalamode: born 3/16: artists rosa bonheur, jaen-antoine gros, juan martinez montanes, writers sully prudhomme, percy mackaye, cesar vallejo, sid fleischman, alice hoffman, jazz musicians reuben "ruby" braff, beryl davis, john young, more musicians nancy wilson, jerry jeff walker.
Artsalamode: “there are desires to return, to love, to not disappear, and there are desires to die, fought by two opposing waters that have never isthmused.” césar vallejo, the complete poetry
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