New Programs and Residencies:
January-March, 2008, UCLA, Los Angeles CA.
CE will be in residence in the Spanish Department teaching a seminar on translation in poetrty. For information, contact Caleb Na, at 310/995-0685

February 9, 2008: Redding CA.CE will give a slide talk and reading from Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld, at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park. For information: contact Mary Harper, 530/242-3120

February 13, 2008: CE will read his Antonin Artaud translations in Stephen Barber's seminar at Cal Arts.

February 14, 2008: CE will read his Cesar Vallejo translations at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

February 19, 2008: CE will do a program on Cesar Vallejo's book Trilce for
Jacobo Sefami's Vallejo seminar at UC-Irvine.

February 26, 2008: CE will discuss his co-translations of Aime Cesaire's poetry
at Ursula Heise's graduate seminar, "The Avant-Garde and the Americas," at Stanford University. For details on this program, as well as the Stanford program, on February 28, contact Professor Heise at 650/723-4609.

February 27, 2008: CE will read and discuss his poetry at Maxine Chernoff's creative writing workshop at San Francisco State University.

February 28, 2008: CE will discuss his Vallejo translations at the Poetry and Poetics Workshop at Stanford University.

Recent CE Publications:
Reciprocal Distillations (poems on art and artists, with a Foreword by Roberto Tejada), Hot Whiskey Press, Boulder CO, October 2006.

A Shade of Paden (requiem poem for the woodcut artist William Paden), Piedoxen Printers, Hopewell NJ, September 2006.

The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo, with a Foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa (translated by Clayton Eshleman), University of California Press, Berkeley, November 2006.

Deep Thermal (poems and digital prints by Mary Heebner), Simplemente Maria Press, Santa Barbara CA, February 2007.

Archaic Design (Essays, interviews, prose, poems, notes) has recently been published by Black Widow Press in Boston.

In Praise of The Complete Poetry, César Vallejo, translated and edited by Clayton Eshleman

"An astonishing accomplishment. Eshleman's translation is writhing with energy."--Forrest Gander

"This is a crucially important translation of one of the poetic geniuses of the twentieth century."--William Rowe, author of Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life.

"Only the dauntless perseverance and the love with which the translator has dedicated so many years of his life to this task can explain why the English version conveys, in all its boldness and vigor, the unmistakable voice of César Vallejo."--from the Foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems (1939), and Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939).

Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision--perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature--in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work.

The cover of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo, A Bilingual Edition. Berkley: California UP, 2006. ISBN: 0520245520

University of California Press web site for The Complete Poetry.

Amazon.com web site for The Complete Poetry.