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“Poeta y amigo Alfredo: Es con gran placer que te escribo… me han impresionado mucho los poemas de En nombre del Hijo, una creación poética verdaderamente extraordinaria. Pese a la ausencia de formación religiosa por mi parte (nuestro país es muy laico), y pese al hecho de inclinarme hacia el escepticismo, he sentido siempre aquel primer deslumbramiento que me produjo la lectura de los Evangelios. Y fue siempre la figura de Jesús entre los pobres, los desamparados, los perseguidos, la que he admirado. Es esa la figura que resplandece en tus poemas, que desbordan de una fe auténtica...

A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant- garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden's new translation does full justice to Vallejo's complex literary style. Including Spanish and English versions of more than...

INTRODUCCIÓN I. El autor se comenta a sí mismo II. Nota general Noticia bibliográfica Bibliografía selecta Nota editorial PRIMER LIBRO DE AMOR POESÍA EN ARMAS (1936-1939) SONETOS A LA PIEDRA (1934-1942) OTROS SONETOS FIGURATIVOS (1934-1942) Índice alfabético de primeros versos Índice de láminas

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...