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567 Notes Introduction 1 Vallejo wrote in Castilian Spanish. In this book the terms “Castilian” and “Spanish” are used interchangeably to refer to la lenga castellana. 2 Puccinelli 2002, xxv. The following selections and introductory remarks constitute close readings of the Obras completas published by PUCP, edited and with introductions by Ricardo Silva- Santisteban, Cecilia Moreano, Manuel Miguel de Priego, Jesús Cabel, Jorge Puccinelli, and Rosario Valdivia Paz- Soldán; as well as the Obras completas published by Editora Perú, edited with extensive commentary by Ricardo González Vigil and Jorge Puccinelli . In this introduction, I rely on their work heavily, translate their commentary sporadically , and, with gratitude, occasionally paraphrase their ideas. 3 The Vallejo children from oldest to youngest were María Jesús, Victor Clemente, Francisco Cleofé, Manuel María, Augusto José, María Encarnación, Manuel Natividad, Néstor de Paula, María Águeda, Victoria Natividad, Miguel Ambrosio, and César Abraham. 4 Monguío’s commentary on the 1940 census has offered excellent data to help us understand the living conditions of La Libertad at the time when Vallejo lived there. See Censo nacional de población de 1940, vol. 3, Departamentos Lambayeque, Libertad, Ancash (Lima: Ministerio de Hacienda y Comercio, Dirección Nacional de Estadística, 1947), 3, 8, 10, 4, 22, 24, 70. 5 Luis Monguío 1952, 16. 6 Hart 2007, in Eshleman 2007, 689. 7 Eshleman and Rubia Barcia 1980, xxi. 8 Ciro Alegría is best known for his novel El mundo es ancho y ajeno (1941) and as a figurehead (next to José María Arguedas) of the Peruvian indigenist movement. 9 To commemorate the passing,Vallejo wrote the elegy “To My Dead Brother,” which he first published in the magazine Cultura Infantil in August 1917, only to then rework it as “To My Brother Miguel” and place it in the section “Songs of Home” of the book The Black Heralds. 10 Clemente Palma, note to Vallejo, Variedades, September 22, 1917. 11 See XVIII, XXIII, XXVIII, LII, LVIII, and LXV, Trilce, in Ortega 2002; “Más allá de la vida y la muerte,” Escalas, in Silva- Santisteban and Moreano 1999, 34–47; and “Lánguidamente su licor,” in De Priego 2002, 508. 12 Of the dedicated copy sent to his father, only the following fragment remains: “Father: with my dusty heart covered with the dust of life, I place in your hands my first book of poems; read it, like you used to read your old papers from those distant years when you ran the government of your town” (Espejo Asturrizaga 1989, 96). 13 See I, II, XVIII, XX, XL, L, LVIII, and LXI of Trilce and “NortheasternWall,” “AntarcticWall,” “Eastern Wall,” and “Doublewide Wall” in Escalas, in Silva-Santisteban and Moreano 1999. 14 Hart 2007, 691, 700. 15 Prior to 1923, he went by the name Alfonso Silva- Santisteban. 16 Known to his friends as “el Chino Gálvez,” Julio Gálvez Orrego was prohibited from fighting in the Spanish civil war, so he worked in a hospital until being captured, executed, and buried in a mass grave by Francoist forces. 17 Eshleman and Rubia Barcia 1980, xxiv. 18 Alfonso de Silva to Carlos Raygada, in 110 Cartas y una sola angustia: Cartas de Alfonso de Silva a Carlos Raygada (Lima: Mejía Baca, 1975), 241. 568 Notes to Pages xxiv–xxxvii 19 See Rosa Alarco, Alfonso de Silva: Biografía (Havana: Casa de las Américas, 1981). 20 El Norte released its first volume on February 1, 1923, funded by JuanVega, uncle of the Speluc ín brothers. The masthead consisted of Alcides Spelucín, Antenor Orrego, Federico Esquerre , Franscico Xandóval, Belisario Spelucín, Francisco Spelucín, and Leoncio Muñoz. 21 See Puccinelli’s synthesis (2002), on which I heavily draw in the following. 22 Published first in L’Amerique Latine and then in El Norte (Trujillo), March 12, 1924. 23 See “Against Professional Secrets: On Pablo Abril de Vivero,” Variedades (Lima), May 7, 1927. 24 See “Spain in the International Exhibit of Paris, Mundial (Lima), October 23, 1925. 25 Vallejo to Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1924, in Cabel 2002, 86–87. 26 See also Vallejo to De Vivero, November 8, 1924, ibid., 91. 27 The masthead of Mundial in 1925 was made up of Andrés Avelino Aramburú, José Chioino, Luis Alberto Sánchez, Edgardo Rebagliati, Alejandro Belaunde, Humberto del Aguila, and the artists Jorge Vinatea Reinoso and Jorge Holguín Lavalle. 28 Puccinelli...