Paperback
2003 · Port Townsend WA
by Vallejo, César
Port Townsend WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2003. Paperback. xxxv, 197p., softbound in glossy decorated 9x6 inch wraps. One page, a blank chapter divider, bears scribblings in blue fountain-pen ink. Slight edgewear with tiny corner-tip turnings and a single dog-ear inside; in other respects a nice copy. Peruvian poet; the title in hand was one of only two collections he published in his lifetime. "After imprisonment on false political charges and the lackluster reception of The Black Heralds, he moved to Paris, where he became active in Marxist politics and the antifascist campaign in Spain...Vallejo died in Paris, in utter poverty, on the day Franco's armies entered Madrid (Inventory #: 240065)