{{Short description|Peruvian poet and essayist}} {{Expand Spanish|topic=bio|date=October 2011}} 250px|right|thumb|Abril circa 1940 '''Xavier Abril de Vivero''', (4 November 1905 in Lima - 1 January 1990 in Montevideo) was a Peruvian poet and essayist who devoted time studying the poetry of César Vallejo.
==Bibliography== * Exposition de poèmes et designs, París, 1927 * Various poems (in the magazine ''Amauta'', 1926 - 1930) * Hollywood (Madrid, 1931) * Difícil trabajo, (Madrid, 1935) * Descubrimiento del alba, (Lima, 1937) * La rosa escrita, (Montevideo, 1987 and Lima, 1996) * Declaración de nuestros días, (1988), * Poesía inédita, (Montevideo, 1994). * Poesía soñada, obra poética completa (Lima, UNMSM, 2006)
===Essays and anthologies=== * Anthology of César Vallejo (Buenos Aires, 1943). * Vallejo: test critical approach (Buenos Aires, 1958). * Two studies: Vallejo and Mallarmé (Bahia Blanca, 1960). * César Vallejo or poetic theory (Madrid, 1963). * Exegesis trílcica (Lima, 1981)
==External links== *[https://www.poemas-del-alma.com/xavier-abril.htm Some of his poems] * {{worldcat|id=269032565}} *[https://www.loc.gov/item/93842577/ Xavier Abril] recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division's audio literary archive on November 25, 1958
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