influential for Cuban and Puerto Rican writers of his generation and the next, such as Virgilio Piñera, Reinaldo Arenas, Fernando Velázquez Medina, René Marqués, and Giannina Braschi, who depict his life and works in their writing. Works Poetry Muerte de Narciso (1937) Enemigo rumor (1941) Aventuras sigilosas (1945) La fijeza (1949) Dador (1960) Fragmentos a su imán (1978) Novels Paradiso (1966) Oppiano Licario (1977) Essays Analecta del reloj (1953) La expresión americana (1957) Tratados en La Habana (1958) La cantidad hechizada (1970) See also Cuban literature Puerto Rican literature Caribbean literature References Further reading Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest, ed. Lois Parkinson Zamora, Monika Kaup (Duke UP, 2010) Jose Lezama Lima: Selections, ed. Ernesto Livon-Grosman (Poets for the Millennium, 4, UC Press, 2005, ) Reading anew : José Lezama Lima's rhetorical investigations, Juan Pablo Lupi (Iberoamericana, 2012) Assimilation/Generation/Resurrection: Contrapuntal Readings in the Poetry of José Lezama Lima, Ben A. Heller (Bucknell UP, 1997) From Modernism to Neo-Baroque: James Joyce and Lezama Lima, César Augusto Salgado (Bucknell UP, 2001) Una Familia Habanera by Eloisa Lezama-Lima (Ediciones Universal, 1998, ) Solventando las diferencias: la ideología del mestizaje en Cuba. Duno Gottberg, Luis, Madrid, Iberoamericana – Frankfurt am Main, Vervuert, 2003. Unmothered Americas: Poetry and universality (on the works of José Lezama Lima, William Carlos Williams, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Giannina Braschi) by Rodriguez Matos, Jaime, Columbia University, 2005. Writing of the formless : José Lezama Lima and the end of time, Jaime Rodríguez Matos (Fordham UP, 2017) External links José Lezama Lima Digital Collection at the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Voces on PBS: "Letters to Eloisa" recounts the life of Cuban literary great José Lezama Lima 1910 births 1976 deaths 20th-century essayists 20th-century male writers 20th-century Cuban novelists 20th-century Cuban poets Cuban essayists Cuban gay writers Cuban LGBT poets Cuban LGBT novelists Magic realism writers Male essayists Gay poets Gay novelists Cuban male novelists Cuban male poets People from Havana University of Havana alumni 20th-century LGBT people