Federico García Lorca
Paperback | Pages: 186 pages Rating: 4.32 | 7475 Users | 179 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Selected Poems |
| Author | : | Federico García Lorca |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 186 pages |
| Published | : | 2005 by New Directions (first published 1936) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Cultural. Spain. Classics. Literature |
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The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca has introduced generations of readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world 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. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences--Spanish folk traditions from his native Andalusia and Granada, gypsy ballads, and his friends the surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel--stream throughout Lorca's work. Poets represented here as translators are as diverse as Stephen Spender, Langston Hughes, Ben Belitt, William Jay Smith, and W.S. Merwin.Mention Books Toward The Selected Poems
| Original Title: | The Selected Poems of Federico García-Lorca |
| ISBN: | 0811216225 (ISBN13: 9780811216227) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.32 From 7475 Users | 179 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books The Selected Poems
Need to revisit this awesome dual-language edition from New Directions after I've taught myself more Spanish. I liked this, my first experience with Lorca, but much like Aleksandr Blok, the Russian Symbolist, there's a certain something that is lost in the translation for these Symbolist images. And that's not to say that it's not still worth reading, or that anything is truly "lost," but there is an inherent rhythm and/or rhyme in a lot of these poems that leave me wanting more, which is cool.Some adjectives I thought of while reading this: dreamy, hazy, surreal, musical, lyrical, magical. It took a couple of poems for this collection to get going with it being in chronological order, but once it did I fell in love with it. The early poems in particular reminded me of Marquez, and the notable change from a rural and dreamlike vibe into a darker, urban surrealism when Lorca moved to New York was really potent.
Not for one moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, / have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies, / nor your shoulders of corduroy worn out by the moon... / Not for one moment, Adam of blood, male, / lone man in the sea, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, / because through the terraces, / clustered around the bars, / pouring out of sewers in bunches, / trembling between the legs of chauffeurs / or revolving on the platforms of absinthe, / the pansies, Walt Whitman, dreamed of you.
The Song Of The Barren Orange Tree'Woodcutter.Cut my shadow from me.Free me from the tormentof being without fruit.Why was I born among mirrors?Day goes round and round me.The night copies mein all its stars.I want to live without my reflection.And then let me dreamthat ants and thistledownare my leaves and my parrots".
Vivid, lyrical and imaginative. A handful of breathtaking poems hide withing this fantastic collection of poems, along with their Spanish original.
Vivid, lyrical and imaginative. A handful of breathtaking poems hide withing this fantastic collection of poems, along with their Spanish original.
Most of these poems were more surrealist than I cared to penetrate or interpret, but it was fascinating to know more about Lorca.
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