{"product_id":"4827-vallejo-cesar-miller-dan-cesar-vallejo","title":"[Vallejo, César  (1892 - 1938)] Miller, Dan. (b. 1928) César Vallejo","description":"Attractive original wooden block for a woodcut portrait of the influential modernist Peruvian poet. 15-1\/2 x 11 inches; light wear. Undated. Titled and signed by the artist in pencil on the right edge. \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eThe Poetry of César Vallejo is unparalleled in movingly capturing the dislocation and frustrated passion of the early twentieth century. He lived in a world that was violently breaking and being born, and he depicts—in his masterpiece \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eTrilce\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e and in his posthumous poems—the shapes reality makes when molded to the contours of an individual consciousness. O\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003ene of the earliest and most consistently underrepresented of what we today call the modernists, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eTrilce\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e was published in the same year as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, but it was published by an unknown writer in Peru and so wasn’t available in Europe or the U.S.. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eAlthough its author later moved to Paris, where he got along well with both Lorca and Neruda and continued to write brilliant poetry, he would not publish another book of poems in his lifetime. Most of his poetry trickled into publication after he died in 1938, and English readers would not have easy access to his work until decades later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093237387423,"sku":"4827","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Vallejo_Carving_1.jpg?v=1722186776","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/4827-vallejo-cesar-miller-dan-cesar-vallejo","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}