BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b4d5f0e3-183f-485e-927f-bb263b3f1980@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T123031Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T210000 SUMMARY:A Celebration of César Vallejo’s Trilce DESCRIPTION:Litquake presents William Rowe and Helen Dimos discussing and reading from the work of César Vallejo Moderated by Robert Kaufman Cent er for the Art of Translation\, City Lights\, Litquake\, and NYRB celebr ate the publication of Trilce by César Vallejo\, translated from the Spa nish and with glosses by William Rowe and Helen Dimos Published by New Y ork Review Books César Vallejo’s Trilce\, first published in 1922\, tran sformed poetry in Spanish utterly\, remaking the substance of verse from the word up. Rich in startling neologisms and other forms of verbal pla y\, Trilce is a blazingly vivid revelation of what poetry can be\, at on ce a love poem\, a poem of erotic urgency and frustration\, a poem of fa mily life\, of political fury\, a lament for the dead\, a work of intens e privacy and an address to the world. As a whole\, the work may be said to constitute a profound reckoning with time—the time of literary forms and their conjunctions with social and political time\; the time of ind igenous and traditional cultural forms—which also works to create a new poetic now. Haunting and incantatory\, Vallejo’s complex set of poems sp eaks powerfully to us\, as we in our time seek to find what needs to be made present. In this new edition of Trilce —the recipient of the presti gious Premio Valle Inclán for the best translation from Spanish into Eng lish—the translators Helen Dimos and William Rowe accompany each poem wi th a gloss. Their incisive commentary on these legendarily challenging p oems opens them up to new understanding while inviting readers to find t heir own pathways to and through them. Trilce is published in a bilingua l edition. César Vallejo (1892–1938) was a Peruvian poet who lived most of his life in France and Spain. He published only two books in his life time\, yet is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the twent ieth century. William Rowe’s Collected Poems were published in 2016 by C rater Press. He has translated a number of Latin American poets\, includ ing Rodolfo Hinostroza\, Juan L. Ortiz\, Hugo Gola\, Magdalena Chocano\, Néstor Perlongher\, and Mario Montalbetti. Three Lyric Poets\, his stud y of Lee Harwood\, Chris Torrance\, and Barry MacSweeney\, was published in 2009. Helen Dimos is the author of the collections No Realtor Was Co mpensated For This Sale (The Elephants\, 2017) and Intermissions & Thing s\, Auto-bio-graphy (forthcoming). She has worked as a teacher of poetry \, composition and English\, as a translator principally from the Greek\ , and as a long-term estate executor\, among other jobs. For the past de cade she has been bringing together poetry events in Athens\, Greece. Sh e is currently working on The Field\, an effort to tell histories of fam ily and place through the history of a parcel of land in Crete. Robert K aufman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universit y of California\, Berkeley\, where he also teaches in–and is past Co-Cha ir of–the University’s interdisciplinary graduate Program in Critical Th eory. Kaufman’s teaching\, scholarship\, and criticism center on modern poetry\, poetics\, aesthetics\, and critical theory\, with special atten tion to interrelations among poetry written in English\, Spanish\, Germa n\, and French. His recent translation of César Vallejo’s 1937 prose poe m “Algo te identifica. . .” (“Something identifies you. . .”) is forthco ming in The Atlantic. About the sponsors The Center for the Art of Trans lation (CAT) is a San Francisco–based nonprofit that champions literary translation and the translators who bring underrepresented global writer s to English-language readers. CAT builds a vibrant cross-cultural commu nity through its award-winning publisher Two Lines Press\, dynamic event s that connect readers and translators\, and the educational program Poe try Inside Out\, which brings poetry translation into classrooms. Learn more at catranslation.org Litquake is a project of the Litquake Foundati on\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit registered in the state of California. Litquake ’s diverse live programs aim to inspire critical engagement with the key issues of the day\, bring people together around the common humanity en capsulated in literature\, and perpetuate a sense of literary community by providing a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. Because they believe in literature as a public good\, they work to produce events that are ac cessible to all. Visit them at https://www.litquake.org New York Review Books (NYRB) is the publishing division of The New York Review of Books. Its imprints are New York Review Books Classics\, New York Review Books Collections\, The New York Review Children’s Collection\, New York Revi ew Comics\, New York Review Books Poets\, and NYRB Lit. Started in the f all of 1999\, it produces quality fiction\, non-fiction\, essays\, memoi rs\, and graphic novels. It has published hundreds of books which includ e such celebrated authors as Richard Hughes\, Vasily Grossman\, Mavis Ga llant\, Upamanyu Chatterjee\, Georges Simenon\,Larry McMurtry\, Frank Ri ch\, Mary McCarthy\, Freeman Dyson\, Zena El Khalil\, Yoram Kaniuk\, Amo ngst many others. This event is made possible by support from the City L ights Foundation.\n\nTickets: https://citylights.com/events/a-celebratio n-of-cesar-vallejos-trilce/\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/b4d5f0e 3-183f-485e-927f-bb263b3f1980 LOCATION:CCSF North Beach / Chinatown Bookstore\, CA URL:https://findlocal.community/event/b4d5f0e3-183f-485e-927f-bb263b3f198 0 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR