The Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Revised)

Federico Garcia Lorca

ISBN 10: 0374526915 / ISBN 13: 9780374526917

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

About this Item

2002. Bilingual. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Revised)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374526915
• ISBN 13: 9780374526917
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work

And I who was walking
with the earth at my waist,
saw two snowy eagles
and a naked girl.
The one was the other
and the girl was neither.
-from "Qasida of the Dark Doves"

Federico García Lorca was the most beloved poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. His work has long been admired for its passionate urgency and haunting evocation of sorrow and loss. Perhaps more persistently than any writer of his time, he sought to understand and accommodate the numinous sources of his inspiration. Though he died at age thirty-eight, he left behind a generous body of poetry, drama, musical arrangements, and drawings, which continue to surprise and inspire.

Christopher Maurer, a leading García Lorca scholar and editor, has brought together new and substantially revised translations by twelve poets and translators, placed side by side with the Spanish originals. The seminal volume Poet in New York is also included here in its entirety.

This is the most comprehensive collection in English of a poet who―as Maurer writes in his illuminating introduction―"spoke unforgettably of all that most interests us: the otherness of nature, the demons of personal identity and artistic creation, sex, childhood, and death."

About the Authors

Federico García Lorca, one of Spain’s greatest poets and dramatists, was born in a village near Granada in 1898 and was murdered in 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Christopher Maurer, the editor of García Lorca's Selected Verse, Poet in New York, and other works, is the author of numerous books and articles on Spanish poetry. He is head of the Department of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Illinois-Chicago.