Trilce

About “Trilce”

Cesar Vallejo was born in Santiago de Chuco, Peru, in 1892. He studied law and literature in Trujillo and moved to Lima in 1917. In 1921, he spent three months in prison, where he wrote some of the poems in Trilce. In 1923, he left for Paris, where he co-founded a cell of the Peruvian Communist Party. He later traveled to Russia and Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. He died in Paris in 1938, in poverty, after the fall of the Spanish Republic. Vallejo left five books of poetry. Only Los heralds negros and Trilce were published during his lifetime. The other three collections were published after his death. Trilce was published in the same year as The Waste Land and is considered a groundbreaking work of early modernism that greatly influenced later poetry. The book contains seventy-seven poems, regarded as Vallejo's most complex and radical work.