Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems [Paperback]

Robert Bly (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 1997

A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions and powerful English translations on facing pages. In a new preface, editor and translator Robert Bly explores what the poems reveal today about politics, the spirit, and the purpose of art.

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The Boy Unable To Speak by Federico Garcia Lorca
Casida Of Sobbing by Federico Garcia Lorca
Casida Of The Rose by Federico Garcia Lorca
Casida Of The Shadowy Pigeons by Federico Garcia Lorca
City That Does Not Sleep by Federico Garcia Lorca
Dance Of Death by Federico Garcia Lorca
Death by Federico Garcia Lorca
Ghazal Of The Dark Death by Federico Garcia Lorca
Ghazal Of The Terrifying Presence by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Guitar by Federico Garcia Lorca
Home From A Walk by Federico Garcia Lorca
Juan Ramon Jimenez by Federico Garcia Lorca
Landscape With Two Graves And An Assyrian Hound by Federico Garcia Lorca
Little Infinite Poem by Federico Garcia Lorca
Malaguena by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Moon Sails Out by Federico Garcia Lorca
New York (office And Attack) by Federico Garcia Lorca
Preciosa And The Wind by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Quarrel by Federico Garcia Lorca
Questions by Federico Garcia Lorca
Rundown Church by Federico Garcia Lorca
Song Of The Cuban Blacks by Federico Garcia Lorca
Song Of The Rider by Federico Garcia Lorca
Sunrise by Federico Garcia Lorca
Thamar And Amnon by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Unmarried Woman At Mass by Federico Garcia Lorca
Adolescence by Juan Ramon Jimenez
At First She Came To Me Pure by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Author's Club by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Being Awake by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Dawn Outside The City Walls by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Dawns Of Moguer by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Diary Of A Poet Recently Married: Cemetery by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Diary Of A Poet Recently Married: Deep Night by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Diary Of A Poet Recently Married: I Took Off Petal After Petal by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Diary Of A Poet Recently Married: In The Subway by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Diary Of A Poet Recently Married: Night Piece by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Diary Of A Poet Recently Married: Something So Close by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Even Though My Soul by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Full Consciousness by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Full Moon by Juan Ramon Jimenez
I Am Not I by Juan Ramon Jimenez
I Pulled On The Reins by Juan Ramon Jimenez
I Was Sitting by Juan Ramon Jimenez
An Imitator Of Billy Sunday by Juan Ramon Jimenez
In New York by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Intelligence, Give Me by Juan Ramon Jimenez
The Lamb Was Bleating Softly' by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Lavender Windowpanes And White Curtains by Juan Ramon Jimenez
The Lumber Wagons by Juan Ramon Jimenez
The Memory by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Music by Juan Ramon Jimenez
The Name Drawn From The Names by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Night Piece by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Oceans by Juan Ramon Jimenez
A Remembrance Is Moving by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Remorse by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Return For An Instant by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Road by Juan Ramon Jimenez
The Ship, Solid And Black by Juan Ramon Jimenez
To Dante by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Walt Whitman by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Whiteness by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Who Knows What Is Going On by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Winter Scene by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Wrong Time by Juan Ramon Jimenez
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

This collection of poems by two great 20th century poets is presented both in the original Spanish and in English translation, edited by Robert Bly. Enjoy a strong collection which juxtaposes the works of the two best Spanish poets of this century, supplemented by Bly's literary research and insights. -- Midwest Book Review

Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Beacon Press (April 30, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807062138
• ISBN-13: 978-0807062135
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,001,231 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I stole this book 7years ago, as it turn's out it stole me., January 17, 1998

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This review is from: Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems (Paperback)

I was in college, was poor, had heard of Lorca from a movie and this book had the same poem in it. I hadn't particular cared for many of Bly's men's movement stuff, but his translations of Jimenez and Lorca are phenomenal. To me Jimenez gives you a glimpse of life in it's beauty, while Lorca opens the shadow like a door. One of Jimenez's poems called'"I was sitting", mentions him reading "the bitter and melancholy book of the poet who knows my dreams", this book of poems has become that same book to me. After 7 years, I still read it on a regular basis. I have the 1973 edition, but the pages are falling out and coffee stained. I was elated to know it has been republished, and will purchase the 1997 edition to replace my older one. I'll say again that I haven't cared for Bly's other work, but his translation of these and other poets is breathtaking.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two fine poets, one fine translator, October 19, 2003

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This review is from: Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems (Paperback)

Not having read other translations of Jimenez, by far the lesser known of the two poets, I can't comment on Bly's translation other than to say it keeps fairly close to the Spanish. Bly, the American surrealist poet famous for his theories of "leaping poetry," does a fine job overall. I've read better Lorca translations, but many many great poets have tried their hand at Lorca.

Bly goes pretty even-steven: half Lorca, half Jimenez. Both were Spanish poets who lived in the United States. Many of the poems they wrote about the U.S. are included. The selection is very good overall, if somewhat biased toward poems that represent Bly's theories of "leaps" in perception and logic.

What you're getting here is a document of not only two great Spanish 'surrealists' (if we must put them in a category) but also of a leading American surrealist's take on them. Readers interested in surrealism as a movement or in Bly and his "leaping verse" would do well to read this. I'd also recommend the book for those interested in exploring Lorca and Jimenez. If you are only interested in Lorca (and can't read him in the original Spanish) you might want to try reading complete translations of his GYPSY SONGS and POET IN NEW YORK, rather than the fragments of those two seminal works presented here. For those like me who are already familiar with Lorca, Bly's take will prove interesting, and you will greatly enjoy Jimenez. A dynamic duo. In total, there is a great deal here to recommend itself and that is why I give it 4/5 stars.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An intriguing introduction to Jimenez, April 4, 1999

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This review is from: Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems (Paperback)

While I have always found Garcia Lorca both depressing and pretentious (despite his considerable reputation), I was dazzled by the poetry of Juan Ramon Jimenez which I saw here for the first time. It is really unfortunate that he is so unknown in North America. His poetry will open your heart.