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| ISBN: | 0374126151 (ISBN13: 9780374126155) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
Federico García Lorca
Hardcover | Pages: 960 pages Rating: 4.47 | 3076 Users | 73 Reviews
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| Title | : | Collected Poems |
| Author | : | Federico García Lorca |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 960 pages |
| Published | : | August 12th 2002 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Cultural. Spain. Literature |
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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 is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. Christopher Maurer, a leading Lorca scholar and editor, has substantially revised FSG's earlier edition of the collected poems of this charismatic and complicated figure, who--as Maurer says 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."
Rating Containing Books Collected Poems
Ratings: 4.47 From 3076 Users | 73 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Collected Poems
When you highlight or underline every word, phrase, sentence and stanza on a page, you might as well just put the mind that wants to hold them poems in the hand to rest. Lorca is an incantatory force of nature. I'm happy that I've overcome my squeamishness about reading poetry in translation. It's not that I was wrong--what I've just finished reading are NOT the poems Lorca actually wrote. All translations are poems the translators wrote inspired by the original poems. The poems themselves havea cock blooms in a well. it is small and bright. then it gets big. it shoots up the well & kisses children yelling down. they retain the memory of this flashing cock forever. the word "oblong" is beautiful to them forever.
If you are going to get a book of Lorca's poetry, this is the absolute best you can get. It's a bilingual edition and it contains pretty much everything other than his plays. I wish I had been around to see him speak and perform his poetry.
4.5i didnt understand it all but thats just because of my level of spanish. some poems were ok, but others i didnt get.[it wasnt actually this book i read either]
Lorca, oh Lorca. Sweet playful Lorca. Erotic Lorca. Lorca of Love. Lorca of love's lost and found. Oh yes Lorca!Lorca of visual puns, words and sensual senses. Lorca of a Spanish towns and countrysides. Lorca of music, de la guitarra y voces dolorosos.Lorca of Dali and Whitman and New York City and The Tamarit Divan. Canciones y sonetos y odas y suites y poemas.A las cinco de la tarde. Eran las cinco en punto de la tarde. Señor Ignacio Sánchez Mejías. It was five in the afternoon R.M.Este libro
Stole the hardback copy from the local library because my paperback edition was falling part (not to mention the hardback is out of print). I did, however, replace the copy, albeit with the paperback edition, haha. Anyway, Lorca is ineffable.
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