Poeta en Nueva York/Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías/ Diván del Tamarit

by Federico García Lorca

Genres: Poetry

Unknown Binding

First published September 22, 1972

About the author

Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.

Reviews

[Émilie Del Toboso]

Toujours mieux en version originale. Une pointe d'érotisme mêlée à un univers arabo-andalou... magnifique

[Eliana Rivero]

"Oda a Walt Whitman", Poeta en Nueva York (1929-1930):

[...] Agonía, agonía, sueño, fermento y sueño.
Éste es el mundo, amigo, agonía, agonía.
Los muertos se descomponen bajo el reloj de las ciudades,
la guerra pasa llorando con un millón de ratas grises,
los ricos dan a sus queridas
pequeños moribundos iluminados,
y la vida no es noble, ni buena, ni sagrada. [...]

[Davidjareno]

Descubrimiento inopinado del poeta! Que grata sorpresa!

[ivanimdi]

el llanto precioso
poeta........ demasiado surrealista pa mí