Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems by Cesar Vallejo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Introduction by Ilan Stavans Translator’s Note by Margaret Sayers Peden Suggestions for Further Reading Chronology A Note on the Text “SPAIN, TAKE THIS CHALICE FROM ME” AND OTHER POEMS

BLACK HERALDS

Black Heralds

Agile Soffits Half Light Absent

Deep Sea Divers

The Spider Babel Pilgramage

Of the Earth

Summer Dregs White Primer

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

TRILCE

III X XI XIII XIV XV XVI XXIV XXVIII XXXIV XXXV XXXVI LVI LXV

HUMAN POEMS

Trilce Violence of the Hours The Windows Have Shuddered... The Lowest Moment of My Life Bone Nomenclature I Am Goint 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 Passerby 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 Adiós And Don’t Say a Word to Me... In Short, I Have Nothing That Can Express My Life but My Death The 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. The Beggars Fight for Spain V. Spanish Image of Death VI. Procession Following the Capture of Bilbao VII. Several Days the Air, Compañeros... 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

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