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Cesar Vallejo

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Please, english posts only. Thank you. (Saturday, 8 Mar 2003 07:59)

Hi, I recomend everybody to read this poet, he is probably the best one in latin america ever.

>>By michael (Thursday, 13 Mar 2003 23:05)

ustedes estan leyendo un poeta peruano y ni entienden Espanol, que tan dificil puede ser...

>>By cordelia (Wednesday, 23 Apr 2003 00:20)

I think Vallejo used his political views more as leverage to achieve a poetic expression that rose above perhaps even his own expectations as a poet, though I hardly think he was naive to that fact. I myself think he was the greatest poet of the 20th century precisely because he cornered the existential crisis of the human soul so dramatically, so radically by disassembling the human experience via his own body. Tricle is one mighty pillar, the other the posthumous poems. Takes years to appreciate and digest, but probably my greatest ongoing literary meditation of one poet.

>>By tom (Friday, 20 Jun 2003 05:54)

His poems are wonderfully untidy, with rough terrain, accidents, surprising turns, revelations, accidental encounters. They seem to unfold spontaneously. Vallejo is bold and, as Goethe noted, in boldness there is genius and magic. Another thing: He uses the declarative sentence more effectively than any poet I've come across. He's what I call a blurting poet. Lastly: in comparison to other poets, who are so compulsivly leery of sentimentality and its ruinous nature, Vallejo can be unashamedly and beautiuflly sentimental. How he gets away with it I have not figure out.

>>By brady (Friday, 20 Jun 2003 07:01)

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