April 26, 2007 | Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church | New York City

With Jayne Cortez, Mónica de la Torre, Mariela Dreyfus, Clayton Eshleman, Forrest Gander, Edward Hirsch, Sam Shepard, Cecilia Vicuña & Anne Waldman

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.

 LISTEN 
• Entire event (1:01:21)

LISTEN TO SEGMENTS
• Introduction by Clayton Eshleman (11:11)

• Readings by Mónica de la Torre and Edward Hirsch (6:57)

• Reading by Sam Shepard (5:44)

• Readings by Cecilia Vicuña and Forrest Gander (8:23)

• Reading by Jayne Cortez (3:06)

• Readings by Mariela Dreyfus and Anne Waldman (12:56)

• Reading by Clayton Eshleman (10:50)

From the PEN Blogs

• Claudio Iván Remeseira
From the perspective of Spanish-language literarture, the highest point of the Festival was probably reached last night with the Tribute to César Vallejo...[More] [More]