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Collected Poems: Revised Bilingual Edition
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 Maure...more
"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 Maure...more
Paperback, 1056 pages
Published
August 1st 2002
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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As a kind of summer project, I have decided to revisit a tried and true book of poetry about every week. And what better way to kick things off then with Lorca? His work is often a true, seamless miracle of the startling image, melancholy resonance, and linguistic clarity:
oye, hijo mio, el silencio.
es un silencio ondulado,
un silencio,
donde resbalan valles y ecos
y que inclina las frentes
hacia el suelo.
(listen, my child, to the silence.
an undulating silence,
a silence
that turns valleys and echoes s...more
oye, hijo mio, el silencio.
es un silencio ondulado,
un silencio,
donde resbalan valles y ecos
y que inclina las frentes
hacia el suelo.
(listen, my child, to the silence.
an undulating silence,
a silence
that turns valleys and echoes s...more
Oct 28, 2012
cras culture
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
poetry,
nature-natural-realm
just about as awesome as i remember when i read it is a younger, teenage poet. full of dark mystery, the moon, the half moon, spikenard, adultry, horses and so forth. the love poems are longing and enigmatic and a lot of it contains ample scenery of days that are lost to me. roving countrysides and mysterious horses and horseman. yet if you read this whole thing or make yr way thru lorca's collection, watchout to when he comes to new york! the anxieties of modern life are there in full effect al...more
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.
a 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.
I lugged this beast across Cuba 11 years ago. I'm curious to go back the Hennepin Country Library and see if that copy still has all the sand and stains it accumulated (though if it wasn't checked in the year after I retuned it, it was probably de-accessioned).
'Guadalquivir, high tower
and wind in the orange groves.'
It was very strange to be traveling in a foreign country, overwhelmed with impressions, and to be in the midst of bookish raptures at the same time. You open your book, and look down...more
'Guadalquivir, high tower
and wind in the orange groves.'
It was very strange to be traveling in a foreign country, overwhelmed with impressions, and to be in the midst of bookish raptures at the same time. You open your book, and look down...more
headed to see Little Ashes tonight, did a little reading about Lorca, would like to read more. there's lots of Surrealist lit i always meant to read; need to remember to get after that.
In an interview during the Spanish Civil war Lorca was asked if he was revolutionary. To which he responded, "All poets are revolutionaries.". Great works from a great artist.
A review by me (in Dutch): http://www.cuttingedge.be/boekenstrip...
Cryptic Lyricism
Another voice silenced by the Franco Regime
Another voice silenced by the Franco Regime
This collection makes the soul dance in great grins1
drooooooooooool
The biographical and literary introduction that begins this book is worth reading in itself to familiarize readers with Garcia Lorca's life and art.
The poems themselves, provided in the original Spanish on the left-hand page and in English on the right-hand page, are both simple and rich, pastoral and passionate. They are like eating a sensually ripe, warmed fruit that is sometimes sweet, sometimes tangy.
The poems themselves, provided in the original Spanish on the left-hand page and in English on the right-hand page, are both simple and rich, pastoral and passionate. They are like eating a sensually ripe, warmed fruit that is sometimes sweet, sometimes tangy.
One shouldn't write a review of Lorca's poems.
Since, an entire body of work of another poet can fall short from meeting the range and depth of one of the poems of Lorca. My review would be like a Neanderthal appreciating the thickness and flatness of the book of complete works of Shakespeare/Lorca to sit on it (For whatever private reasons a Neanderthal might want to sit in one place.. we shouldnt let our imagination wander too far!).
Since, an entire body of work of another poet can fall short from meeting the range and depth of one of the poems of Lorca. My review would be like a Neanderthal appreciating the thickness and flatness of the book of complete works of Shakespeare/Lorca to sit on it (For whatever private reasons a Neanderthal might want to sit in one place.. we shouldnt let our imagination wander too far!).
I think this book will be on my "currently reading" shelf forever - similar to the way some people keep a Bible on their nightstand... I love picking this up - and having the Spain of the 1920s & 30s wash over me... "Dry Land, quiet land of immense nights ... (Wind in the olive grove, wind in the sierra.)....." sigh...
read these poems with the idea that some of them would become puppet shows! they are beautiful in their imagery alone, but thinking in terms of literal illustration made me focus on them in a way that i might not other wise have.
tom! i want this book back!!!
tom! i want this book back!!!
This has to be a seminal collection for the non Spanish speaker/reader. At times I find it hard to work through but a book that I will keep coming back to. It has a nice memory as I bought it in Granada!
What I read was okay, but I barely skimmed the surface. Will need to finish this in bites...the early work is hard to digest.
Oct 29, 2009
Joseph
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
poetry,
always-reading
"Let there be a panorama of open eyes and bitter inflamed wounds.
Out in the world, no one sleeps. No one. No one.
I've said it before. No one sleeps."
Out in the world, no one sleeps. No one. No one.
I've said it before. No one sleeps."
This book will rock your world. To read Lorca is to realize how futile it is for other poets to put pen to paper. An amazing genius that will never grow obsolete.
Feb 22, 2008
A!
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
hap-hazard romantics.
Recommended to A! by:
the slumbering bums of Enoch Pratt.
Night up we two with the full moon,
I began to cry and you were laughing.
Your disdain was a god,my complaints
moments and doves in a chain.
I began to cry and you were laughing.
Your disdain was a god,my complaints
moments and doves in a chain.
This is a book that will never stray far from me.
since high school I've loved his poems, now I'm trying to learn Spanish and what better way
So I'm still reading this, off and on for ages, but it's a huge book! More thoughts to come.
May 17, 2007
Devan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Spanish language speakers, poetry lovers, surrealists, jokers
Shelves:
poetry
Lorca has a haunting imagism which dances a passionate flamenco on your temples.
Beautiful. There is no other word to describe Federico Garcia Lorca's poems.
Um dos pilares da minha trindade poética. Poetry at its best.
my favorite anthology of poems!
I cheat, both Lorca and myself.
Absolutely beautiful.
I just love LORKA
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Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5,1898; died near Granada, August 19,1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the i...more
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