by César Vallejo · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437616698
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Los heraldos negros is the first book of poems by the renowned Peruvian poet César Vallejo. This edition, published by Cátedra as part of its Letras Hispánicas collection, presents a careful selection of poems that explore themes such as pain, loneliness, and the human condition, all imbued with a profound sense of melancholy and reflection. The work, inscribed in Spanish-American modernism, stands out for its innovation in poetic discourse and the imposition of the poet's personality within the rhythmic and thematic canon of the movement.
César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.
