Editing César Vallejo (section)

===Los Heraldos Negros (1919)===
''Los Heraldos Negros'' (The Black Messengers) was completed in 1918, but not published until 1919. In the 1993 edited volume ''Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems'', [[Robert Bly]] describes this collection as "a staggering book, sensual, prophetic, affectionate, wild," and as "the greatest single collection of poems I have ever read." The title is likely suggestive of the [[four horsemen of the apocalypse]], as the book touches on topics of religiosity, life and death.

* Poem: "The Black Heralds" <ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.shearsman.com/archive/samples/2007/CVbhSampler.pdf|title = The Black Heralds|access-date = December 21, 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120306204244/http://www.shearsman.com/archive/samples/2007/CVbhSampler.pdf|archive-date = March 6, 2012|url-status = dead}}</ref>

:There are blows in life, so powerful . . . I don't know!
:Blows as from God's hatred; as if before them,
:the backlash of everything suffered
:were to dam up in the soul . . . I don't know!

:They are few; but they are . . . They open dark furrows
:in the fiercest face and in the strongest side.
:Maybe they could be the horses of barbarous Attilas;
:or the black heralds Death sends us.

:They are the deep abysses of the soul's Christs,
:of some revered faith Destiny blasphemes.
:Those gory blows are the cracklings of a bread
:that burns-up on us at the oven's door.

:And man . . . Poor . . . poor! He turns his eyes,
:as when a slap on the shoulder calls us;
:he turns his crazed eyes, and everything lived
:is dammed up, like a pond of guilt, in his gaze.
:There are blows in life, so powerful . . . I don't know!