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Bilingual Spanish-English edition
Federico García 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 this was the first book 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 Sánchez Mejías, 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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- Intro
- Description
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Selected Bibliography
- (1919-1925) - Early Poems
- Sueño
- Dream
- Baladilla de los tres ríos
- Little Ballad of Three Rivers
- Paisaje
- Landscape
- La guitarra
- The Guitar
- Pueblo
- Village
- Saeta
- Saeta
- Camino
- Journey
- Malagueña
- Malagueña
- Nocturnos de la ventana (4)
- Nocturnes of the Window (4)
- Arco de lunas
- Arc of Moons
- Canción de jinete (1860)
- Song of the Rider (1860)
- Canción de jinete
- Song of the Rider
- La luna asoma
- The Moon Comes Out
- Murió al amanecer
- He Died at Dawn
- La soltera en misa
- The Spinster at Mass
- Despedida
- Farewell
- Suicidio
- Suicide
- Granada y 1850
- Granada and 1850
- Dos marinos en la orilla
- Two Sailors on the Beach
- Canción del naranjo seco
- Song of the Barren Orange Tree
- Oda a Salvador Dalí
- Ode to Salvador Dalí
- (1924-1927) Romancero Gitano - Gypsy Ballads
- Romance de la luna, luna
- Ballad of the Moon, Moon
- Preciosa y el aire
- Preciosa and the Wind
- Reyerta
- The Fight
- Romance sonámbulo
- Somnambular Ballad
- La monja gitana
- The Gypsy Nun
- La casada infiel
- The Faithless Wife
- Romance de la pena negra
- Ballad of the Black Sorrow
- San Miguel (Granada)
- St Michael (Granada)
- San Rafael (Córdoba)
- St Raphael (Córdoba)
- San Gabriel (Sevilla)
- St Gabriel (Sevilla)
- Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla
- The Arrest of Tony Camborio on the Road to Sevilla
- Muerte de Antoñito el Camborio
- The Death of Tony Camborio
- Romance del emplazado
- Ballad of the Doomed Man
- Romance de la Guardia Civil española
- Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard
- Thamar y Amnón
- Thamar and Amnón
- (1929-30) Poeta en Nueva York - Poet in New York
- Vuelta de paseo
- Back from a Walk
- 1910
- 1910
- El rey de Harlem
- The King of Harlem
- Iglesia abandonada
- Abandoned Church
- Danza de la muerte
- Dance of Death
- Asesinato
- Murder
- La aurora
- Daybreak
- New York (oficina y denuncia)
- New York (office and denunciation)
- Grito hacia Roma
- Cry to Rome
- Oda a Walt Whitman
- Ode to Walt Whitman
- Adán
- Adam
- Son de negros en Cuba
- Song of the Negroes in Cuba
- (1936) Diván del Tamarit - Diván del Tamarit
- Gacela del amor imprevisto
- Gacela of Unforeseen Love
- Gacela de la terrible presencia
- Gacela of the Terrible Presence
- Gacela del amor desesperado
- Gacela of Desperate Love
- Gacela del niño muerto
- Gacela of the Dead Child
- Gacela de la muerte oscura
- Gacela of the Dark Death
- Gacela de la huida
- Gacela of the Flight
- Casida del herido por el agua
- Casida of One Wounded by the Water
- Casida del llanto
- Casida of the Weeping
- Casida de la mujer tendida
- Casida of the Reclining Woman
- Casida de la rosa
- Casida of the Rose
- Casida de las palomas oscuras
- Casida of the Dark Doves
- (1935) Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías - Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
- 1. La cogida y la muerte
- The Tossing and the Death
- 2. La sangre derramada
- The Spilled Blood
- 3. Cuerpo presente
- The Body Laid Out
- 4. Alma ausente
- Absent Soul
- (1935-1936) Sonetas del amor oscuro - Sonnets of Dark Love
- Soneto de la guirnalda de rosas
- Sonnet of the Garland of Roses
- Soneto de la dulce queja
- Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
- Llagas de amor
- The Wounds of Love
- Soneto de la carta
- Sonnet of the Letter
- El poeta dice la verdad
- The poet speaks the truth
- El poeta habla por teléfono con el amor
- The poet speaks to the loved one by telephone
- El poeta pregunta a su amor por la «Ciudad Encantada» de Cuenca
- The poet questions his lover on the 'enchanted city' of Cuenca
- Soneto gongorino en que el poeta manda a su amor una paloma
- Gongorine sonnet in which the poet sends his loved one a pigeon
- [¡Ay voz secreta del amor oscuro!]
- 'Ah, secret voice of dark love'
- El amor duerme en el pecho del poeta
- The loved one sleeps on the poet's breast
- Noche del amor insomne
- Night of Sleepless Love
- (1933) Juega y teoría del duende - Theory and Function of the Duende
- Index of English titles and first lines
- Index of Spanish titles and first lines
- About the Author
- Copyright
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