Tribute to Cesar Vallejo

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April 26 | A Tribute to César Vallejo

When: Thursday, April 26 Where: Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church: 131 East 10th Street What time: 8 p.m.–9:30 p.m. With Jayne Cortez, Mónica de la Torre, Mariela Dreyfus, Clayton Eshleman, Forrest Gander, Edward Hirsch, Sam Shepard, Cecilia Vicuña & Anne Waldman Tickets: $8 at the door; free to PEN American Center, Poets House, and Poetry Project members Co-sponsored by The Poetry Project, Poets House, and The University of California Press A reading in celebration of the supreme poetical innovator César Vallejo (1892–1938), whose syntax-breaking search for meaning has been compared to those of James Joyce and Paul Celan. This Peruvian poet's revolutionary works, Trilce (1922) and The Black Heralds (1919), had a major impact on Modernist poetics and Latin American literature.