Poet in Spain
By: Federico García Lorca ; new translations by Sarah Arvio
Contributors: Arvio, Sarah, 1954- translator; García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2017
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9781524733117
Subjects: Translations into English
Description: "The 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 Garc?a 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 lover?which 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 lyricism?showing the poet's work has grown only more beautiful with the passage of time" -- publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Parallel text in English and Spanish.