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Title: The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (New Directions Paperbook) by Federico Garcia Lorca ISBN: 0-8112-0091-4 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 June, 1955 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant, forbidding, and intense
Comment: This volume is bilingual and in this case the English translations can hold their own against the Spanish (and Galician) originals. It culls poems from every period in the poet's life, thereby giving the reader a huge range of Garcia Lorca's work - from the talking lizards to the masterpiece "Poet in New York" to traditional gacelas.
While some of the poems seem superficial, others are loaded with meaning. Some critics have said that Lorca's preoccupation with death seemed to foreshadow his own, which came in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. Indeed, many of these poems have dark overtones. Lorca never loses the passion and intensity, however. His love poems are majestic in their images and emotion, which are surprisingly undimmed in translation.
In particular, Lorca's language - especially his metaphors and similes - are unusual and striking. His imagery conjures up fantastical scenes; maybe one could say he writes the way that Salvador Dali painted. If you're looking for an introduction to Lorca (or if you're approaching him with some trepidation), then I'd suggest this book. It will give you a good feel for his development as a poet as well as his overal style.
Rating: 5
Summary: Garcia Lorca is one of the Greatest poets to ever write.
Comment: Garcia Lorca's poetry moves, his words each have their own color.
As I read his poems I feel like I am being presented with a little gift. His words are beats I cannot escape. I need an open window so I can see the sky whenever I read his poetry.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mágico puro / Pure magic
Comment: There are no words to adequately describe García Lorca who was one of the greatest artists of the last century. The poems in "Selected Poems" represent some of the best of his collections, "Romancero Gitano", "Libro de Poemas", and the dark, brooding "Poema del Cante Jondo". Stephen Spender's excellent translation manages to preserve García Lorca's exquisite imagery without making it sound maudlin or overstated. García Lorca really has to be read in the original Spanish to be able to get a complete realization of his incredible talent as a poet, but those monolingual English speakers to whom the book is directed will be able to appreciate through this translation what a genius was lost to the world when at the age of 38 he was assassinated in the Spanish Civil War. García Lorca astonishes and amazes us with his brilliant artistry, his deceptively simple yet complex imagery, and the voice of haunting pathos that is surely the voice of Spain. Even readers who don't particularly like poetry will be held spellbound by the poems presented here.
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Title: Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life by Ian Gibson, Altie Karper ISBN: 0679774017 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Three Plays: Blood Wedding/Yerma/the House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca, Michael Dewell, Carmen Zapata, Chirstopher Maurer ISBN: 0374523320 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Poet in New York by Federico Garcia Lorca, Greg Simon, Steven F. White, Christopher Maurer ISBN: 0374525404 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: In Search of Duende (New Directions Bibelot Series) by Federico Lorca, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, Christopher Maurer, Federico Garcia Lorca ISBN: 0811213765 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Revised) by Federico Garcia Lorca, Christopher Maurer, Catherine Brown ISBN: 0374526915 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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