"Cesar Vallejo, one of the great Spanish-language poets of the twentieth century, merged radical politics, Latin American languages and indigenous consciousness to create a truly New World poetry. He wrote five books of verse but published only two collections during his lifetime: The Black Heralds (1919) and Trilce (1922). A landmark in Latin American literature, The Black Heralds contains poems of varied style, from love sonnets in which Vallejo struggles to free his erotic life from the bounds of Spanish Catholicism to the linguistically inventive sequence of "Imperial Nostalgias," where he ruthlessly satirizes the pastoral romanticism of Peruvian rural life and the treatment of natives. In this bilingual volume, translator Rebecca Seiferle addresses previous translations of Vallejo's poety." --From the Publisher.