Word: vallejo
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...with fourth-grade geography and the fact that Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass, drooping from North America like some ripe, unplucked fruit, has produced some of this century's major poets and novelists: Peru's Cesar Vallejo, Chile's Pablo Neruda, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia...
...Memoirs do give us wonderful sketches of Neruda's friends and contemporaries--Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Eduardo Frei, Soong Ch'ing Ling, the wife of Sun Yat-sen, and Cesar Vallejo among others--but they somehow leave us without the personal detail of Neruda himself. The Memoirs, for instance, barely mention Neruda's first wife or marriage, an 18-year venture--and have no more than one or two dozen specific time references...
David L. Tobenkin Vallejo, Calif...
Byron F. Samuels Vallejo, Calif...
...Jorge Luis Borges, who is perhaps the only original, yet uncommitted, modern Lating American writer. But Marquez directly faces U.S. exploitation is grotesque, often surrealistic terms. Marquez's novel has had extremely wide circulation in South America, has been read by people who would hever read the poems of Vallejo, even by fanatic reader of Agatha Christie translations...