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Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, "Poetry in Pieces" is the first major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings - Peru and Paris - which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all its forms and spaces. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo's writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo - and Latin American poetry - to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. "Poetry in Pieces" sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity.
Michelle Clayton is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Introduction: "The Whole, the Part!" 1. "Pachyderms in Poetry and Prose" 2. Invasion of the Lyric 3. Lyric Matters 4. Lyric Technique, Aesthetic Politics 5. New World Views 6. Making Poetry History Conclusion: Poetry and Crime Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
"This excellent study abounds with insights on an intriguing author." Choice "Ground-breaking... Combines a highly attuned sense of the cultural milieu in which Vallejo lived with a set of original readings of his poems." -- Stephen M. Hart Modern Language Review
