{"product_id":"vallejo-cesar-aphorismspb","title":"Vallejo, Cesar: Aphorisms","description":"\u003cp\u003eGreen Integer, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Stephen Kessler\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 1, 2001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are not aphorisms in the classical sense of philosophic gemstones cut and polished to epigrammatic perfection. They are more like thoughts-in-progress from the notebooks of a radical modernist poet trying to regain his bearings after a consciousness-shaking encounter with Soviet socialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these short, pithy, subjective statements, the great Peruvian poet, author of Trilce and Los heraldos negros, explores his own thinking and poetics at an extremely important moment in his career. The dynamic tension between his own subjective, visionary poetics and a desire for solidarity with the masses energizes and haunts these writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephen Kessler is a poet, translator, essayist, and editor whose previous translations include Save Twilight and Selected Poems by Julio Cortázar, Destruction of Love by Vicente Aleixandre, and a substantial contribution to the Selected Poems of Jorge Luis Borges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45536817381399,"sku":"9781931243001","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/614nIm6YaTL._SL1412.jpg?v=1789945322","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/vallejo-cesar-aphorismspb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}