Four Lorca Suites

by Federico García Lorca, Jerome Rothenberg (Translator)

Genres: Poetry

20 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

About the author

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 inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.

Reviews

[Edita · Rating 5 out of 5]

I stare at the stars
that are over the ocean.
Oh stars made of water,
oh water drops.

I stare at the stars
that are over my heart.
Oh stars made of odors,
oh nuclei of odors.

I stare at the earth
filled with shadows.

[Octavio Solis · Rating 5 out of 5]

A sweet little chapbook of Lorca’s astonishing poetry.

[Brandon Paul · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was a little hard to get through because it seemed like hundreds of completely free-form poems that were in related groups which made it repetitive and a little too whimsical. I dont know, maybe that is just due to the translation. Most of the poems were intriguing enough in a thought provoking/ intensly beautiful imagery/ the author is spanish sort of way.
A good pick and put down book of poetry.