Selected Poems with parallel Spanish text

by Lorca, Federico García; Sorrell, Martin; Walters, D.Gareth

• ISBN13: 9780192805652
• ISBN10: 0192805657
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetime and after. Lorca's poetry is steeped in the land, climate, and folklore of his native Andalusia, though he writes memorably of New York and Cuba too. Writing often in modernist idiom, and full of startling imagery, he evokes a world of intense feelings, silent suffering, and dangerous love. This unique parallel-text edition balances poems from Lorca's early collections with his better-known later work, providing a clear vision of his poetic development and drawing attention to the brilliance and originality of some of the earlier work. Key poems from all Lorca's collections appear here, including the recently discovered Sonnets of Dark Love. Martin Sorrell's translations are thoughtful and accomplished, and D. Gareth Walters's shrewd Introduction, with its distinctive focus on the achievements of the poet, gives a clear and balanced appraisal of the poetry, while steering away from the tendency to mythologize Lorca's life and death. This edition also includes helpful notes, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index of titles.

Author Biography

Martin Sorrell is Emeritus Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Exeter.
D. Gareth Walters is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

A chronology of Federico Garcia Lorca
Autumn song	p. 3
Minor song	p. 7
Sad ballad	p. 9
Elegy	p. 13
Nocturnal air	p. 17
Spring song	p. 19
Dream	p. 21
Ballad of the little square	p. 23
Seawater ballad	p. 27
Dream	p. 29
Another song	p. 31
The billy goat	p. 33
Song with reflection	p. 39
Sesame	p. 41
Song beneath tears	p. 41
Landscape without song	p. 43
Horizon	p. 43
Fishermen	p. 43
Delirium	p. 45
In the garden of Lunar Grapefruit	p. 45
Landscape	p. 49
The guitar	p. 49
The shout	p. 51
The silence	p. 53
Dancing the Siguiriya	p. 53
After passing by	p. 53
And after	p. 55
Parched land	p. 55
Town	p. 57
Dagger	p. 57
Crossroads	p. 59
Ay!	p. 59
Surprise	p. 61
The Solea	p. 61
Cave	p. 63
Meeting	p. 65
Dawn	p. 65
Bowmen	p. 67
Night	p. 67
Seville	p. 69
Procession	p. 71
Float, holy week	p. 71
Saeta	p. 71
Balcony	p. 73
Dawn	p. 73
Nocturnes at the window	p. 77
Foolish song	p. 81
Horseman's song	p. 81
It's true!	p. 83
Verlaine	p. 83
Bacchus	p. 85
Juan Ramon Jimenez	p. 85
Venus	p. 87
Debussy	p. 87
Narcissus	p. 89
In a girl's ear	p. 89
The moon appears	p. 91
He died at dawn	p. 91
First anniversary	p. 93
Second anniversary	p. 93
Lucia Martinez	p. 95
The spinster at mass	p. 95
Malaise and night	p. 95
Betrothal	p. 97
Parting	p. 99
In the institute and in the university	p. 99
Light madrigal	p. 101
Prelude	p. 101
Another way	p. 103
Song of November and April	p. 103
Song of the dry orange tree	p. 105
Ballad of the moon, the moon	p. 107
Dreamwalker ballad	p. 109
The gypsy nun	p. 113
Capture of Antonito el Camborio on the Seville road	p. 117
Death of Antonito el Camborio	p. 119
Dead from love	p. 123
The king of Harlem	p. 127
Crucifixion	p. 133
Cry to Rome	p. 137
Blacks in Cuba, their son	p. 141
Little infinite poem	p. 145
Ghazal IX of marvellous love	p. 147
Qasida V of the open-air dream	p. 147
Qasida VIII of the golden girl	p. 149
Ghazal of the morning marketplace	p. 151
Romance of our lady of the boat	p. 153
Cradle song for Rosalia Castro, dead	p. 153
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias	p. 156
The poet speaks to his love on the telephone	p. 171
'Ay, secret voice of dark love'	p. 171
The lover asleep on the poet's breast	p. 173
Night of sleepless love	p. 173
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