Libro Quemado / Burnt Book
Publisher: Nexus Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Atlanta, GA
Format: Art book
Number of pages: 30
Description: Libro Quemado or "Burnt Book" is dedicated to the memory of the many Mayan codices burned by Friar Diego de Landa in 1562 because they contained, "nothing but superstition and the Devil's falsehoods." In an attempt to evoke the style of these lost codices, what appear to be rectangles of letters are actually poems without punctuation where words break on one line and continue on the next. This flowing visual style compliments the poem's sensuous words.