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Xavier Villaurrutia

    Xavier Villaurrutia was a Mexican poet and playwright, whose most famous works include the short theatrical dramas known as Autos profanos, compiled in the collection Poesía y teatro completos.

    Nostalgia for Death & Hieroglyphs of Desire
    • 1992

      Poetry by Xavier Villaurrutia, one of the few openly homo-sexual Latin American writers of his time, presented here with a book-length critical study by Nobel Laureate, Octavio Paz. --Copper Canyon Press. The latest of Eliot Weinberger's brilliant translations of Latin American poets brings to English the major volume of an impeccable Mexican modernist. --Booklist.

      Nostalgia for Death & Hieroglyphs of Desire