César Vallejo #01 - Trilce XII

This poem is drawn from César Vallejo's avant-garde masterpiece, Trilce. Originally published in 1922, it stands alongside other monumental works of literary Modernism, such as The Wasteland by Eliot, Finnegan's Wake by Joyce, The Enormous Room by Cummings, The Marine Cemetery by Verlaine and 20 Poems To Be Read On The Tram by Girondo, among others.