Trilce Recalculating Demeter and Persephone

Demeter and Persephone

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Trilce Recalculating Demeter and PersephoneCesar Vallejo (trans. and with glosses by William Rowe and Helen Dimos) In Trilce, Csar Vallejo subjects time and identity to a series of operations that take their motion from a subtle intuition of capitalist modernity. The voices of the poem do not correspond with a succession of past, present and future. The poem doesnt simply symbolize or allegorize childhood or family life. In the face of an indeterminate time, identification is impossible. And