In the canon
Black Stone on a White Stone
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1938
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 1
César Vallejo opens by promising that he will die in Paris in a downpour, on a day he already remembers, and the line has the eerie calm of a man reading his own future off a wet window. He even guesses the weekday: a Thursday, in autumn, like the one he is writing on.
I will die in Paris in a downpour, on a day I already remember.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.