César Vallejo #04 - Trilce XXXIV

In a unique critical essay written in Paris, though published in Lima (El Comercio, 1924), Vallejo lays his cards on the table & openly discusses the shortcomings of North American poetry in the 20’s. In that piece, he suggests that Imagists, such as Pound & Doolittle, were simply riding the coat-tails of the “artificial” vanguards of Europe & that the only hope for American poetry was through Walt Whitman (more on this elsewhere. Vallejo saw in Whitman sincerity without style [...]