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The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca has introduced generations of American readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the Symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences-Spanish folk traditions from his native Andalusia and Granada, gypsy ballads, and his friends the surrealists Salavador Dali and Luis Bunuel-stream through Lorca's work. Poets represented here as translators are as diverse as Stephen Spender, Langston Hughes, Ben Belitt, William Jay Smith and W.S. Merwin.

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Lorca lives on through his imaginative poetry. A rich, bilingual selection of clear/ lyrical / intimate poems. --Lovin' Life, Jeri Lynn Crippen

What a poet! I have never seen grace and genius, a winged heart and a crystalline waterfall, come together in anyone else as they did in him. Federico Garcia Lorca was the extravagant 'duende, ' his was a magnetic joyfulness that generated a zest for life in his heart and radiated it like a planet. A testament to the timelessness and transcendence of Lorca's poetic work. --EFE/Latin American News Agency What a poet! I have never seen grace and genius...come together in anyone else as they did in him. --Pablo Neruda Lorca lives on through his imaginative poetry. A rich, bilingual selection of clear/ lyrical / intimate poems. --Lovin' Life, Jeri Lynn Crippen

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Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1937) was born in Granada, Spain. A poet and playwright (Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba), he was killed by the Falangists in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

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