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Published by New Directions, 1955
ISBN 10: 0811200914ISBN 13: 9780811200912
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 180 pages. The Selected Poems of Federico Garca Lorca has int roduced generations of American readers to mesmerizing poetry sin ce 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with d eeper psychological shadings. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences- -Spanish folk traditions from his native Andalusia and Granada, g ypsy ballads, and his friends the surrealists Salvador Dali and L uis Bunuel--stream throughout Lorca's work. Poets represented her e as translators are as diverse as Stephen Spender, Langston Hugh es, Ben Belitt, William Jay Smith, and W.S. Merwin.