Homesick for Death
Homesick for Death

Author: Xavier Villaurrutia

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Translated from the Spanish by D.M. Stroud and a preface and afterword by Elias Nandino. Xavier Villaurrutia (1903-1950) was the most distinguished member of Mexico's most celebrated literary group, the Contemporaneos. A closet queen who escaped his closet, instead of bursting forth with the energy of a Whitman, he flits about the corridors of his dreams like a sinister black moth. The very suppression of energy here is what creates its intensity, as in the unforgettable Decimas. This is the first complete bilingual edition of Villaurrutia's poems and will fill an important gap in the study of both gay and Mexican literature. "These beautiful translations convey perfectly the mixture of fear, hope, guilt, sensuality and elegance that are so typical of Villaurrutia"--Manuel Duran.

Fire and Ice
Fire and Ice

Author: Merlin M. Forster

Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807891698

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This study concentrates on close analysis and evaluation of his poetry. It moves from the specific to the more abstract, from commentary on lexicon and syntax through metrics and figurative language to a consideration of the poet's major themes: love, death, and oppressive solitude. The final section is an evaluation of the poetry itself and of Villaurrutia's place in Mexican literature and in a larger Western tradition.

Nostalgia for Death
Nostalgia for Death

Author: Xavier Villaurrutia

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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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.

Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History
Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History

Author: Robert Aldrich

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 0415159830

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500 entries from more than 100 contributors, profiling gay and lesbians throughout history, ranging from Sappho to Andre Gide; most entries are accompanied by a bibliography.