“cifro en sangre poema y poesía”: el secreto abierto y la tradición homoerótica latinoamericana / “i code in blood poem and poetry”: the open secret and the latin american homoerotic tradition

From a poem by Carlos Pellicer that includes an encrypted love message, it is examined in this paper a series of poetic and romantic ties to the Mexican group Los Contemporáneos (including some surrounding figures like the Honduran Rafael Heliodorus Valle). The article focuses on the communication of “secrets” of homosexual love, that once become poetic motifs, move from private to public.