Selections of his work were translated into English in Twenty Poems of Vicente Aleixandre (1977) and A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vincent Aleixandre (1979; Copper Canyon Press, 2007) (translated by Lewis Hyde).
In 1993, Copper Canyon Press published Eliot Weinberger's translation of Nostalgia for Death along with Esther Allen's translation of Octavio Paz's Hieroglyphs of Desire, a book-length study of Villaurrutia's work.
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In recent years, more than 130 titles from more than a three dozen publishers (such as Alyson, Bella Books, Bold Strokes Books, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Copper Canyon Press, Farrar Straus Giroux, Haworth, Regal Crest Enterprises, Spinsters Ink, and St. Martin's Press) were nominated for consideration.
However, in late 2013, Copper Canyon Press, with support from The Poetry Foundation, will publish Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America, an intensely focused bilingual anthology of Latin American poetry.