The first English-language edition of Federico Garcia Lorca's Selected Letters presents an intimate autobiographical record of the Spanish poet from the age of twenty to a month before his death at the hands of Franco's forces in 1936.
The first English-language edition of Federico Garcia Lorca's Selected Letters presents an intimate autobiographical record of the Spanish poet from t...
Mariana Pineda (1925) was Lorca's first success in the theatre. Based on a popular Andalusian ballad, it tells the story of Mariana Pineda who was garrotted in 1831 under the reactionary regime of Ferdinand VII for embroidering a Liberal flag and refusing to betray her lover.
Mariana Pineda (1925) was Lorca's first success in the theatre. Based on a popular Andalusian ballad, it tells the story of Mariana Pineda who was gar...
The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and siguiriyas, Lorca captures the passionate flamenco cosmos of Andalusia's Gypsies, --those mysterious wandering folk who gave deep song its definitive form.-
Cante jondo, deep song, comes from a musical tradition that developed among peoples who fled into the mountains in the 15th century to escape the...
The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was...
Let us agree, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, that one of man s most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian. In my Saint Sebastian I remember you, Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, . . . and sometimes I think he "is" you. Let s see whether Saint Sebastian turns out to be you. This exchange is but a glimpse into the complex relationship between two renowned and highly influential twentieth-century artists. On the centennial of Dali's birth, "Sebastian s Arrows" presents a never-before-published collection of their...
Let us agree, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, that one of man s most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian. In my Saint Sebastian I remember y...
Mesmerizing and hauntinga lyrical translation. BroadwayWorld.com Passionate, primal and poeticbeautifully translated by Langston Hughes. NOW Toronto Merwin s] translation reveals this sensitivity, this sense of scale and musicality. Melia Benussen, Introduction One of Spain s greatest poets and dramatists, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote in many styles but achieved maturity and fame with his peasant plays, Blood Wedding and Yerma, in which impassioned language and imagery accentuate tragic narratives. These never-before published translations...
Mesmerizing and hauntinga lyrical translation. BroadwayWorld.com Passionate, primal and poeticbeautifully translated by Langston Hughes. <...
When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughters to sew and be silent. But locks can't hold back the growing tide of desire. This play by Lorca, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression.
When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughters to sew and be silent. But locks can't hold back th...