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“... Cé​sar Vallejo is Yeats’s poet with the sword upstairs. Everything about him seems to burn with intensity. He burned through zarzuela Spanish, making it into a language of monosyllables, blurts, inventions, contradictions, arcane legal and medical terms. (The Mexican scholar Ilan Stavans says he made it more American ...”

“... The Peruvian poet​ César Vallejo wrote in a famous sonnet that he would die in Paris on a rainy Thursday. He lived in Paris, it rains quite a bit there, especially for poets, and he had a one in seven chance of being right about the day. In fact, he died in Paris on a Friday. It was raining. The poem isn’t so much a near-miss prophecy as a piece of lugubrious theatre, playing with what used to be called mentalism ...”

“... immigrants, represented in her late poem ‘Sed de Correr’. The poem is named from a phrase of César Vallejo, meaning literally ‘a thirst for running away’, but translated by Clampitt into escape, the urge to disjoin, the hunger to have gone, to be going: sed de correr: Vallejo in Paris writing (me alejo ...”

“... writes in a ‘stately old-world register’ because ‘unlike his contemporaries Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo … Borges in his poetry … has little interest in “making it new”.’ This story gets sadder with every assertion. Admirers of Borges’s fictions will expect to be delighted to meet almost any version of him. But this one, an Argentine ...”

“... until the liberation of the city in 1944. It was published in Italy in 1974, with an epigraph from César Vallejo: ‘Por el analfabeto a quien escribo’ (‘for the illiterate, to whom I write’). Above all, her biographer, Lily Tuck, explains, Morante wanted the book to be ‘read by the general public – the poor general public’. She pushed for a ...”

“... evocation of Neruda’s southern childhood; there are strong portraits of many writer friends (Vallejo, Lorca, Eluard, Ehrenburg and others), moments of sorrow and sympathy (but never regret) for abandoned women; comic tales of travellers’ mishaps; a fabulous account of a journey across the Andes into exile. Neruda is proud to have become ‘the poet of ...”

“... Cartel put a bomb on an Avianca flight, intending to kill either the presidential candidate César Gaviria (who turned out not to be on the plane) or two police informers (who were), and in the process murdered 105 other passengers. In 2000, a rancher called Elvia Cortés died when the ‘necklace bomb’ that soldiers of the Fuerzas Armadas ...”

“... Guillen had a truly poetic gift, though in a minor key. In fact, he is, together with Cesar Vallejo and Pablo Neruda, the most widely translated Latin American poet of the century and has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize. The musical connection is an apt one, for Guillen was a writer of pop poetry avant la lettre, the composer of soft ...”