Selected Poems - Softcover

Garcia Lorca, Federico

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852241608 ISBN 13: 9781852241605

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

Federico Garcia 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 edition of his Selected Poems was the first to include English translations of these brooding poems. Merryn Williams' edition 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 Sanchez Mejias, 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.

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Review:

Praise for Selected Verse (FSG, 1996):
"Garcia Lorca's poems remain influential, mysterious, and some of the most emotional we have." --"The Bloomsbury Review"
"The entire poetic spectrum of Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist is showcased . . . Lorca scholar Maurer has chosen well from all 10 of Lorca's published poetry collections as well as from a selection of previously uncollected works, and the translations are superb."
--Donna Seaman, "Booklist"
Praise for Selected Verse (FSG, 1996): "Garcia Lorca's poems remain influential, mysterious, and some of the most emotional we have." --"The Bloomsbury Review""The entire poetic spectrum of Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist is showcased . . . Lorca scholar Maurer has chosen well from all 10 of Lorca's published poetry collections as well as from a selection of previously uncollected works, and the translations are superb."--Donna Seaman, "Booklist"

Praise for Selected Verse (FSG, 1996):
"García Lorca's poems remain influential, mysterious, and some of the most emotional we have." --"The Bloomsbury Review"
"The entire poetic spectrum of Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist is showcased . . . Lorca scholar Maurer has chosen well from all 10 of Lorca's published poetry collections as well as from a selection of previously uncollected works, and the translations are superb."
--Donna Seaman, "Booklist"
Praise for Selected Verse (FSG, 1996):

"Garcia Lorca's poems remain influential, mysterious, and some of the most emotional we have." --"The Bloomsbury Review"

"The entire poetic spectrum of Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist is showcased . . . Lorca scholar Maurer has chosen well from all 10 of Lorca's published poetry collections as well as from a selection of previously uncollected works, and the translations are superb."
--Donna Seaman, "Booklist"
"Garcia Lorca's poems remain influential, mysterious, and some of the most emotional we have." --"The Bloomsbury Review"
"The entire poetic spectrum of Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist is showcased . . . Lorca scholar Maurer has chosen well from all 10 of Lorca's published poetry collections as well as from a selection of previously uncollected works, and the translations are superb." --Donna Seaman, "Booklist"

Garcia Lorca's poems remain influential, mysterious, and some of the most emotional we have. "The Bloomsbury Review"

The entire poetic spectrum of Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist is showcased . . . Lorca scholar Maurer has chosen well from all 10 of Lorca's published poetry collections as well as from a selection of previously uncollected works, and the translations are superb. "Donna Seaman, Booklist""

Garcia Lorca's poems remain influential, mysterious, and some of the most emotional we have. The Bloomsbury Review

The entire poetic spectrum of Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist is showcased . . . Lorca scholar Maurer has chosen well from all 10 of Lorca's published poetry collections as well as from a selection of previously uncollected works, and the translations are superb. Donna Seaman, Booklist

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"Garcia Lorca's poems remain influential, mysterious, and some of the most emotional we have." --The Bloomsbury Review

"The entire poetic spectrum of Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist is showcased . . . Lorca scholar Maurer has chosen well from all 10 of Lorca's published poetry collections as well as from a selection of previously uncollected works, and the translations are superb." --Donna Seaman, Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1852241608
• ISBN 13: 9781852241605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240