Vallejo created a wrenching poetic language for Spanish that radically altered the shape of its imagery and the nature of its rhythms. Vallejo forged a new discourse in order to express his own visceral compassion for human suffering.--Edith Grossman "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

Vallejo never hoarded his suffering, never saw it as a privilege, as something that fell only on him.--Michael Wood "New York Review of Books"

The Eternal Dice by César Vallejo, translated by Margaret Jull Costa provides a concise and thoughtfully arranged volume that honors the important Peruvian poet.-- "Poetry Northwest"

Vallejo has emerged for us as the greatest of the great South American poets--a crucial figure in the making of the total body of twentieth-century world poetry.--Jerome Rothenberg, co-editor of Poems for the Millennium

The Eternal Dice introduces English readers to the work that helped solidify Vallejo's elusive mythology and exemplifies his sardonic style. Through radical experimentation with language in an even more directly avant-garde gesture, Vallejo tried to conceive the earth from scratch--now denying not only his former Gods, but the structures of language itself.--Julia Kornberg "The Poetry Foundation"