Description: Lorca : Selected Poems, Paperback by Lorca, Federico Garcia; Williams, Merryn (TRN), ISBN 1780376103, ISBN-13 9781780376103, Brand New, Free shipping in the US ?Federico Garca Lorca, Spain’s greatest modern poet and dramatist, was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was by then an immensely popular figure, celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and at the height of his creative powers. After his death, with his work suppressed, he became a potent symbol of the martyrdom of Spain. The manuscript of Lorca’s last poems, his tormented Sonnets of Dark Love, disappeared during the Civil War. For fifty years the poems lived only in the words of the poets who had heard Lorca read them, like Neruda and Aleixandre, who remembered them as 'a pure and ardent monument to love in which the prime material is now the poet’s flesh, his heart, his soul wide open to his own destruction’. Lorca’s lost sonnets were re-discovered in Spain during the 1980s, and Merryn Williams’s original 1992 edition of his Selected Poems was the first to include English translations of these brooding poems. This new dual-language Spanish-English edition of her iconic translation draws on the full range of Lorca’s poetry, from the early poems and the gypsy ballads to the agitated Poet in New York sequence and the Arab-influenced gacelas and casidas which followed his American exile. It includes the Lament for Ignacio Snchez Mejas, Lorca’s great elegy for his bullfighter friend, as well as the full text of his famous lecture on the duende, the daemon of Spanish music, song, dance, poetry and art. In these remarkable translations, Lorca’s elemental poems are reborn in English, with their stark images of blood and moon, of water and earth; of bulls, horses and fish; olives, sun and oranges; knives and snow; darkness and death.
Price: 17.09 USD
Location: Jessup, Maryland
End Time: 2025-01-30T19:30:45.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Lorca: Selected Poems : Bilingual Spanish-English Edition
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, European / General, Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2022
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Author: Federico García Lorca
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
