Research Catalog

Title

"Spain, take this chalice from me" (and other poems) / Cesar Vallejo ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ; edited with an introduction by Ilan Stavans.

Author

Vallejo, César, 1892-1938

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Stavans, Ilan
• Peden, Margaret Sayers

Description

liii, 294 p.; 20 cm.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

Penguin classics

Subject

• Vallejo, César, 1892-1938 > Translations into English
• 1936-1939
• Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939 > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• History
• Translations
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. xliv-xlviii) and index.

Language (note)

• Poem texts in English and Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Ilan Stavans -- Translator's Note / Margaret Sayers Peden -- Black Heralds -- Black Heralds -- Agile Soffits -- Half Light -- Absent -- Deep Sea Divers -- Spider -- Babel -- Pilgrimage -- Of the Earth -- Summer -- Dregs -- White Primer -- Imperial Nostalgias -- Imperial Nostalgias -- I -- Iii -- Huaco -- Dead Idyll -- Thunder -- Agape -- White Rose -- Our Daily Bread -- Retable -- Pagan Woman -- Eternal Dice -- Rain -- Amor -- God -- Unity -- Muleteers -- Songs of the Hearth -- Fevered Lace -- Distant Steps -- To My Brother Miguel -- Januariad -- Espergesia -- Trice: III -- Trice: X -- Trice: XI -- Trice: XIII -- Trice: XIV -- Trice: XV -- Trice: XVI -- Trice: XXIV -- Trice: XXVIII -- Trice: XXXIV -- Trice: XXXV -- Trice: XXXVI -- Trice: LVI -- Trice: LXV -- Human Poems -- Trilce -- Violence of the Hours -- Windows Have Shuddered...
• Lowest Moment of My Life -- Bone Nomenclature -- I Am Going to Talk About Hope -- Height and Hair -- Until the Day I Come Back, from This Rock... -- Today I Am Much Less Fond of Life... -- Epistle to Passersby -- Reliance on the Eyeglasses, Not the Eye... -- Today I Would Like to Be Happy Willingly... -- And If After So Many Words... -- Nine Monsters -- There Are Days I Am Struck by an Overflowing, Politic Longing... -- Black Stone on a White Stone -- Poem to Be Read and Sung -- Life, This Life... -- Paris, October 1936 -- Farewell Recalling an Adios -- And Don't Say a Word to Me... -- In Short, I Have Nothing That Can Express My Life but My Death... -- Forsaken -- Oh Empty Bottle of Wine! Oh Wine... -- Racked, Solomonic, Decent... -- Alfonso, You Are Looking at Me, I'm Aware... -- Possibly I Am Someone Else... -- Wedding March -- Anger That Breaks the Man into Boys... -- Sweetness Through Heart Sweetness!...
• It's All Because the Place Where I Put On... -- Sermon on Death -- Spain, Take this Chalice from Me -- I. Hymn to the Volunteers of the Republic -- II. Battles -- III. He Used to Write in the Air with His Big Toe... -- IV. Beggars Fight for Spain -- V. Spanish Image of Death -- VI. Procession Following the Capture of Bilbao -- VII. Several Days the Air, Companeros... -- VIII. Here... -- IX. Brief Funeral Prayer for a Hero of the Republic -- X. Winter in the Battle of Teruel -- XI. I Looked at the Corpse... -- XII. Mass -- XIII. Funeral Drumroll for the Rubble of Durango -- XIV. Be Wary, Spain, of Your Own Spain... -- XV. Spain, Take This Chalice from Me.

ISBN

• 9780143105305 (pbk.)
• 0143105302 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008273848

OCLC

• 166382417
• SCSB-10785520

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library