num_pages: 576
description: For the first time in a quarter century a major new volume of translations of the beloved poetry of Federico Garca Lorca presented in a beautiful bilingual editionThe fluid and mesmeric lines of these new translations by the award-winning poet Sarah Arvio bring us closer than ever to the talismanic perfection of the great Garca Lorca. Poet in Spain invokes the wild innate local surrealism of the Spanish voice in moonlit poems of love and death set among poplars rivers low hills and high sierras. Arvio's ample and rhythmically rich offering includes among other essential works the folkloric yet modernist Gypsy Ballads the plaintive flamenco Poem of the Cante Jondo and the turbulent and beautiful Dark Love Sonnets  addressed to Lorca's homosexual loverwhich Lorca was revising at the time of his brutal political murder by Fascist forces in the early days of the Spanish Civil War. Here too are several lyrics translated into English for the first time and the play Blood Wedding also a great tragic poem. Arvio has created a fresh voice for Lorca in English full of urgency pathos and lyricismshowing the poet's work has grown only more beautiful with the passage of time.
language: English
title: Poet in Spain
publisher: Knopf