Pillar of Salt: An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets

by Salvador Novo and Novo Salvador

Written with exquisite sensitivity and wit, this memoir by one of Mexico's foremost men of letters describes coming of age during the violence of the Mexican Revolution and "living dangerously" as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society.

Salvador Novo (1904-1974) was a provocative and prolific cultural presence in Mexico City through much of the twentieth century. With his friend and fellow poet Xavier Villaurrutia,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292705417
• ISBN13: 9780292705418
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"