Selected Verse: A Bilingual Edition (Garcia Lorca, Federico, Poems. V. 3.) (Paperback)

by Federico Garcia Lorca (Author), Christopher Maurer (Editor), Francisco Aragon (Translator)

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From Publishers Weekly
Poet, playwright and composer Lorca (1898-1936), who was murdered by Franco's soldiers, is widely held to be Spain's greatest modern poet. This bilingual volume of poems, the most complete anthology ever to appear in English, features translations by many outstanding poet/translators: Francisco Aragon, Catherine Brown, Cola Franzen, Will Kirkland, William Bryant Logan, Christopher Maurer, Jerome Rothenberg, Greg Simon, Alan S. Trueblood, John K. Walsh and Steven F. White. Featuring poetry drawn from every book of poems Lorca published during his lifetime as well as from his uncollected work, this authoritative edition displays Lorca's extraordinary range and power, documents his aesthetic and technical evolution and reestablishes him as a consummate poet of desire, drama and death. From the lighter, at times whimsical, verse in "Suites and Songs" to the many elegies and laments he wrote, Lorca's singular voice, fiercely emotional and imagistically brilliant, shines through in all its vivid intelligence.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Although this unusually comprehensive bilingual anthology of Lorca's poems contains about half as many as the two previous volumes in the series Poet in New York (LJ 2/1/88) and Collected Poems (LJ 3/15/92), it has nearly three times that of the standard collection, Selected Poems (New Directions, 1961). The modern translations, identical to those published earlier in the Farrar series, sample from all Lorca's poetic output, both famous ("Rider's Song," "Sleepwalking Ballad") and lesser-known (Suites, not published until 1983). Notes have been shortened but updated, and the bibliography has been slightly enlarged. Despite the cloned contents, this compendium serves as either an inexpensive or a more portable alternative to the two earlier volumes of one of the most enduring voices of modern Spanish poetry. Recommended for public and academic libraries.?Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC Lib. Dublin, Ohio
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 343 pages
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (January 31, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0374523525
• ISBN-13: 978-0374523527
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,339,843 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is the one to buy, March 10, 2002

By	supastar (brooklyn) - See all my reviews

I just started browsing through a book of his poems in spanish one day and loved them, but my spanish is marginal. This has the spanish poems side by side with english translations, many of which I don't really like because they do things like switch words and lines and take a little too much freedom and change the spirit of the poem, but that's okay. You can read the spanish, read the english, and see exactly what has been changed, but the beauty is in the spanish ones, and though his vocabulary is large, yours doesn't really have to be to appreciate the sound and sight of these poems in spanish. I love many of the sonnets, plus the king of harlem, which reminds me of HCE from Finnegans Wake, this character that becomes the landscape itself, "after walking", and many others from the poet in new york. I've just been getting into some spanish poets after reading some st john of the cross and seeing what types of flows and life can be infused into words in this language, and these dark, bloody grimy oozes of language have had me high for weeks.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Superb Cross-Section of Lorca's Work, December 9, 2003

By	Austin M. Kramer "Rouge Scholar" (Beijing, PRC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca tower over me - his delicate balance of exhaltation and alienation, of romanticism and cynicism, of life and death. Through the eyes of his poems, the gray skys and cold winds all around me blaze with a new vision. If I can ever do a tenth of what Lorca has done, as a writer, as a thinker, as a person trying to enjoy life, than I shall be more than satisfied.

There is a pocket in my old Swiss Backpack that perfectly fits only one book for when I am away from home. This is the book that goes in it: You could take a whole case of Lorca's works but you would always be missing something. Instead, most of my favorate poems are in here, bilingual so there is no need for anyone to complain about the translator.

The best way to experience any poet's work is through the ark of their life, over the vast ups and downs that go with any carrer. In this book, you can begin to feel that in Lorca's transitions and transformations of the mundane world into the extraordinary.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Garcia lorca doe it again, July 6, 2002

By	Ms. Oneale (florida) - See all my reviews

Whether you have children or not Buy this book. If you have children read them the landscape poetry in here. They will sing them in their sleep. It will take them on magical journeys to happy places and you also.