Carlos Pellicer, a twentieth-century Mexican poet and museum director, belongs to the literary generation called the Contemporáneos (Contemporaries), which is also the name of the journal founded by this group. Pellicer is distinctive among the members of this generation because he did not take an interest in writing about the philosophical identity crisis that his colleagues were engaged in throughout their lives. The motifs that occupied his attention were his colorful, tropical surroundings, indigenous myths of the pre-Hispanic peoples, his faith in God, and romantic love. Much of his life was spent traveling throughout Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, and several of his poems are based on the images that he beheld while abroad. Carlos Monsiváis writes in La poesía mexicana del siglo XX (Twentieth Century Mexican Poetry, 1946) that Pellicer "belongs, spiritually, to that generation, which guided by the inspiration...