Berkeley. 2011. January 2011. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520262294. FlashPoints, 4. 320 pages. paperback. keywords: Latin America Peru Literature Poetry Literary Studies. DESCRIPTION - Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (18921938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings - Peru and Paris - which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo's writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo - and Latin American poetry - to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. inventory #37820

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Author bio	A native of Dublin, Ireland, Professor Michelle Clayton studied Modern Languages (Spanish & German) at Oxford University, then moved to the US, where she received her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University in 2003. She taught Latin American and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 2002 until 2012, when she joined the Brown community as Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature. Her research and teaching interests include modern poetry; avant-garde aesthetics; dance; art history; media studies; and film, from the earliest silents to contemporary Spanish and Latin American productions. She offers courses on modern Latin American writers such as Cesar Vallejo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Jose María Arguedas, Juan Jose Saer, and Cesar Aira; on modernism and the international avant-gardes; and on transnational and interdisciplinary exchanges spanning writing, performance, and the plastic arts.

Author bio

Author bio

A native of Dublin, Ireland, Professor Michelle Clayton studied Modern Languages (Spanish & German) at Oxford University, then moved to the US, where she received her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University in 2003. She taught Latin American and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 2002 until 2012, when she joined the Brown community as Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature. Her research and teaching interests include modern poetry; avant-garde aesthetics; dance; art history; media studies; and film, from the earliest silents to contemporary Spanish and Latin American productions. She offers courses on modern Latin American writers such as Cesar Vallejo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Jose María Arguedas, Juan Jose Saer, and Cesar Aira; on modernism and the international avant-gardes; and on transnational and interdisciplinary exchanges spanning writing, performance, and the plastic arts.

Clayton, Michelle. Poetry in Pieces: César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity

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