Author(s): Federico Garcia Lorca (ed Francisco Garcia Lorca & Donald M Allen)

Poetry

This bilingual edition was the first to include Lorca's last poems, the previously lost Sonnets of Dark Love. It covers the full range of his poetry, from the early poems and the gypsy ballads to the agitated Poet in New York and the Arab-influenced gacelas and casidas. Also included is the Lament for Sanchez Mejias, Lorca's great elegy for his bullfighter friend, as well as his famous lecture, "Theory and Function of the Duende". Publisher Marketing: The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca has introduced generations of American readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the Symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences-Spanish folk traditions from is native Andalusia and Granada, gypsy ballads, and his friends the surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel--stream throughout Lorca's work. Poets represented here as translators are as diverse as Stephen Spender, Langston Hughes, Ben Belitt, William jay Smith, and W.S. Merwin. Review Quotes: "What a poet! I have never seen grace and genius, a winged heart and a crystalline waterfall, come together in anyone else as they did in him. Federico Garcia Lorca was the extravagant 'duende, ' his was a magnetic joyfulness that generated a zest for life in his heart and radiated it like a planet." First published 1955; this edition with introduction by W S Merwin 2005.