In «Imperial Nostalgia»: «[I am] a ferment of Sun / yeast of the shadow and the heart!» («Huaco»), of The Black Heralds (TBH), the word «ferment» —linked to the «Sun» acting in the «shadow and heart»— is similar, though not equivalent, to fragment. In this sense, and as we studied in Trilce: húmeros para bailar (2014), the poems of 1922 would not be «fragmented» or made up of «fragments» (European historical avant-garde); but, rather, fermented or «fermenting» (Inkarrí). The «heralds», as «Lung ferments [of Sun]», would constitute a community (Garden of Epicurus) or a susceptible Andean archipelago —although already opaque or mestizo (mixed)— to spread universally. A specific and concentrated reflection —«brain scene»— of the same (nature and function of the «fragments») would constitute Trilce; it is for this reason that this book of poems is more...