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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		César Vallejo translated by Clayton Eshleman Clayton Eshleman is a poet, translator, essayist, editor, and amateur paleo-archeologist. Since 1968, he has published 13 collections of poetry with Black Sparrow Press. He has founded and edited two seminal literary magazines: Caterpillar, 20 issues, 1967-1973, and Sulfur, 46 issues, 1981-2000. He has received the National Book Award in Translation, the Landon Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and numerous grants from both the NEA and the NEH. In February 2007, he will be a Regents Lecturer for the Spanish Department at UCLA where an international symposium based on his new Vallejo translation will be held. Every June, with his wife Caryl, he leads a tour, sponsored by the Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, to the French Ice Age painted caves.

Black Stone on a White Stone César Vallejo translated by Clayton Eshleman

I will die in Paris with a downpour, a day which I can already remember. I will die in Paris—and I don't budge— maybe a Thursday, like today, in autumn.   Thursday it will be, because today, Thursday, as I prose these lines, I have forced on my humeri and, never like today, have I turned, with all my journey, to see myself alone.   César Vallejo has died, they beat him, all of them, without him doing anything to them; they gave it to him hard with a stick and hard   likewise with a rope; witnesses are the Thursdays and the humerus bones, the loneliness, the rain, the roads...

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