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...
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...
