Vallejo's late masterwork, written in Paris in poverty and published after his death in 1938. He had said "I will die in Paris on a rainy Thursday" and he did. Where Trilce is pure experiment, the Human Poems are more accessible and more devastating: "Black Stone on a White Stone" is his premeditated elegy for himself, as precise a prophecy of death as any in literature. Spain in the Heart (1937) stands beside these as his political testament.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.