César Vallejo

The Peruvian poet César Vallejo, one of Latin America's most famous poets, was involved in various literary circles and began publishing his poems in 1914 in magazines, after discovering the works of Walt Whitman, the French symbolists, and modernist Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío. He brought out his first book of poems in 1919, Los heraldos negros, and in 1922, he...