Claudia Rankine on her selection:
This untitled poem, by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, was written in November of 1937. He was living in Paris, having traveled back from Spain, and he was working on what would become the posthumous poems. He worked between September and December of that year and then fell ill and died in March of 1938.
The Complete Posthumous Poetry, trans. Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia
Intro and outro from "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0
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