Trilce
Seventy-seven numbered poems that break Spanish open — invented words, misspellings held on purpose, numerals and blank space set into the line, syntax abandoned mid-clause — around the flat facts of a provincial childhood, a dead mother, brothers and sisters at the door of a locked room, and the months the poet spent in a cell in Trujillo on a charge he denied. Grammar gives way exactly where the feeling will not resolve, so that a poem about eating lunch alone at a stranger's table cannot get through the sentence that would name who is missing from it. Two hundred copies were printed in 1922 at the Lima penitentiary workshop and almost nobody reviewed it; it is now read as the first fully avant-garde book in Spanish.
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