The Lorca Variations: I-Xxxiii [Paperback]

Jerome Rothenberg (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Throughout a career spanning four decades, Rothenberg has been as prolific as a translator as he has been as a poet. Like much of his earlier work, these new poems straddle the borders of both genres. They ultimately become a dialogue with the silenced master: "To write through Lorca, to come back on Lorca's wings . . . To return with Lorca only yesterday, to walk along the sea, under the stars." In the 1950s, before he was translating Native American writings and founding an Ethnopoetics movement, Rothenberg was influenced by the Spanish "duende" or use of imagery (a concept parallel to the "deep image" popularized by Robert Bly). Returning to those early concerns, he appropriates Lorca's imagery: moon, hills, death, olive groves. Liberally supplying his own verbs, and permitting explicit (homo)sexual references, the resulting poems have a hard edge not present in Lorca's work. Rothenberg's reading of Lorca as a surrealist is similarly far-fetched. But these digressions from the text, along with a concentration on what he considers Lorca's more playful pieces, offer Rothenberg a vehicle structurally reminiscent of his initial experiments with language, chance and performance, making this his strongest volume since the 1980 publication of Vienna Blood.
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Review

Coda: The Final Lorca Variation
The Lorca Variations (1) Lorca's Spain: A Homage
The Lorca Variations (10) Sublunar Visions: 1
The Lorca Variations (10) Sublunar Visions: 2
The Lorca Variations (10) Sublunar Visions: 3
The Lorca Variations (11) Newton: 1
The Lorca Variations (11) Newton: 2
The Lorca Variations (11) Newton: 3
The Lorca Variations (12) Federico, Newton, Adam: 1
The Lorca Variations (12) Federico, Newton, Adam: 2
The Lorca Variations (13) Fireworks Suite: 1
The Lorca Variations (13) Fireworks Suite: 2
The Lorca Variations (13) Fireworks Suite: 3
The Lorca Variations (13) Fireworks Suite: 4
The Lorca Variations (13) Fireworks Suite: 5
The Lorca Variations (14) Wheel Of Fortune: 1
The Lorca Variations (14) Wheel Of Fortune: 2
The Lorca Variations (15) Water Jets: 1
The Lorca Variations (15) Water Jets: 2
The Lorca Variations (16) Seaside, Sirens, Stars: 1
The Lorca Variations (16) Seaside, Sirens, Stars: 2
The Lorca Variations (17) God, Dark, With Palm Trees: 1
The Lorca Variations (17) God, Dark, With Palm Trees: 2
The Lorca Variations (17) God, Dark, With Palm Trees: 3
The Lorca Variations (17) God, Dark, With Palm Trees: 4
The Lorca Variations (18) Those Who Wait
The Lorca Variations (18) Those Who Wait: 2
The Lorca Variations (19) In A Time Of War: 1
The Lorca Variations (19) In A Time Of War: 2
The Lorca Variations (19) In A Time Of War: 3
The Lorca Variations (19) In A Time Of War: 4
The Lorca Variations (19) In A Time Of War: 5
The Lorca Variations (19) In A Time Of War: 6
The Lorca Variations (19) In A Time Of War: 7
The Lorca Variations (2) Blue Poems/blue River: 1
The Lorca Variations (2) Blue Poems/blue River: 2
The Lorca Variations (2) Blue Poems/blue River: 3 Coda
The Lorca Variations (20) Songs At Nightfall: 1
The Lorca Variations (20) Songs At Nightfall: 2
The Lorca Variations (20) Songs At Nightfall: 3
The Lorca Variations (21) The Return: 1
The Lorca Variations (21) The Return: 2
The Lorca Variations (21) The Return: 3
The Lorca Variations (21) The Return: 4
The Lorca Variations (22) Shadows: 1
The Lorca Variations (22) Shadows: 2
The Lorca Variations (22) Shadows: 3
The Lorca Variations (22) Shadows: 4
The Lorca Variations (22) Shadows: 5
The Lorca Variations (23) White: 1
The Lorca Variations (23) White: 2. Second White
The Lorca Variations (23) White: 3
The Lorca Variations (23) White: 4
The Lorca Variations (23) White: 5 Final White
The Lorca Variations (24) Lorca's Mirror: 1
The Lorca Variations (24) Lorca's Mirror: 2
The Lorca Variations (25) Two Allegories: 1
The Lorca Variations (25) Two Allegories: 2
The Lorca Variations (26) Palimpsests: 1
The Lorca Variations (26) Palimpsests: 2
The Lorca Variations (26) Palimpsests: 3
The Lorca Variations (26) Palimpsests: 4
The Lorca Variations (27) Lorca's Journals: A Voyage
The Lorca Variations (27) Lorca's Journals: Six Songs
The Lorca Variations (27) Lorca's Journals: The Double
The Lorca Variations (27) Lorca's Journals: Water Jets (1)
The Lorca Variations (27) Lorca's Journals: Water Jets (2)
The Lorca Variations (27) Lorca's Journals: Zoroaster
The Lorca Variations (28) For Turtles: 1
The Lorca Variations (28) For Turtles: 2
The Lorca Variations (29) Lunar Grapefruits: 1
The Lorca Variations (29) Lunar Grapefruits: 2
The Lorca Variations (29) Lunar Grapefruits: 3
The Lorca Variations (29) Lunar Grapefruits: 4
The Lorca Variations (29) Lunar Grapefruits: Prelude
The Lorca Variations (3) Lorca's Clocks: 1
The Lorca Variations (3) Lorca's Clocks: 2
The Lorca Variations (3) Lorca's Clocks: 3
The Lorca Variations (3) Lorca's Clocks: 4
The Lorca Variations (30) Jewish Cemetery: 1
The Lorca Variations (31) Jewish Cemetery 2
The Lorca Variations (32) Second New York Poem: 1
The Lorca Variations (32) Second New York Poem: 2
The Lorca Variations (32) Second New York Poem: 3
The Lorca Variations (32) Second New York Poem: 4
The Lorca Variations (32) 'first New York Poem'
The Lorca Variations (4) More Clocks
The Lorca Variations (5) Mirror Visions: 1
The Lorca Variations (5) Mirror Visions: 2
The Lorca Variations (5) Mirror Visions: 3 Capriccio
The Lorca Variations (5) Mirror Visions: 4 Shinto Eyes
The Lorca Variations (5) Mirror Visions: 5
The Lorca Variations (5) Mirror Visions: 6
The Lorca Variations (6) At Night: 1
The Lorca Variations (6) At Night: 2
The Lorca Variations (6) At Night: 3
The Lorca Variations (6) At Night: 4
The Lorca Variations (6) At Night: 5
The Lorca Variations (7) Water: 1
The Lorca Variations (7) Water: 2
The Lorca Variations (7) Water: 3
The Lorca Variations (8) Blackwaters
The Lorca Variations (9) A Cuckoo Suite: 1
The Lorca Variations (9) A Cuckoo Suite: 2
The Lorca Variations (9) A Cuckoo Suite: 3
The Lorca Variations (9) A Cuckoo Suite: 4
The Lorca Variations (9) A Cuckoo Suite: 5
The Lorca's Lvariations (27) Lorca's Journals: A Master
The Lorca's Lvariations (27) Lorca's Journals: A Poem With
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 90 pages
• Publisher: New Directions; First edition. edition (October 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081121253X
• ISBN-13: 978-0811212533
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,377,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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