(P/B) LORCA: SELECTED POEMS

Παρουσίαση

This selection has been the introduction for generations of American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1937). Lorca is admired the world over 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. Most of all, Lorca's poems are admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences - Spanish folk traditions of his native Andalusia and Granada, gypsy ballads, and surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel - stream throughout Lorca's work. The translators of tills collection - as diverse as Stephen Spender, Langston Hughes, Ben Belitt, William Jay Smith, and W. S. Merwin - have produced English versions which catch the spirit and intensity of tile originals. Chosen from each of his original volumes as well as from posthumously published poems, this is a selection of Lorca's very best. This bilingual edition - original Spanish text facing the English text - is reissued with an Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, teacher and translator W. S. Merwin who says of Lorca: "What he wrote in his short life made it impossible to imagine the poetry not only of Spain and the Spanish language everywhere but of the whole Western world, since then, without him." (From the publisher)