Against professional secrets by César Vallejo and translated by Joseph Mulligan

This is poetry from Peru.

Against professional secrets by César Vallejo translated by Joseph Mulligan is published by Roof Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781931824422E12.

Against professional secrets, by César Vallejo and translated from Spanish by Joseph Mulligan, gives English-language readers Vallejo’s sharp, anti-official intelligence, where the poem can feel like a wound arguing with bureaucracy, secrecy, and inherited power. Published by Roof Books, it should be approached first as a book of encounter rather than as a biographical assignment. The useful question is not what the poems are supposed to mean in a single solved sentence, but what kind of attention they ask the reader to practice. For this library, the entry matters because it keeps Peru in the translated poetry conversation as a living source of image, pressure, and voice.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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