Federico García Lorca

Three Plays: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba

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Verde Que Te Quiero Verde
Lyrical, Passionate, Elemental
read and buy this book!!
Spain not Peru
Simply brilliant

Three Plays: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba
Federico Garcia Lorca
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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ASIN: 0374523320

Book Description

In these three plays, García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage. Michael Dewell of the National Repertory Theatre and Carmen Zapata of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts have created these versions expressly for the stage. The result, both performable and readable, has been thoroughly revised for this edition, which is introduced by Christopher Maurer, general editor of the Complete Poetical Works of García Lorca.

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Verde Que Te Quiero Verde.......2003-11-29

Here is one of Federico Garcia-Lorca's most famous poems, in Spanish. It will give you a taste of what it is like to read him in English or Spanish:

Verde que te quiero verde*
por F. García Lorca * Friday October 24, 2003 at 09:46 PM

Romance sonámbulo*

Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar
y el caballo en la montaña.
Con la sombra en la cintura
ella sueña en su baranda,
verde carne, pelo verde,
con ojos de fría plata.
Verde que te quiero verde.
Bajo la luna gitana,
las cosas le están mirando
y ella no puede mirarlas.
*
Verde que te quiero verde.
Grandes estrellas de escarcha,
vienen con el pez de sombra
que abre el camino del alba.
La higuera frota su viento
con la lija de sus ramas,
y el monte, gato garduño,
eriza sus pitas agrias.
¿Pero quién vendrá? ¿Y por dónde...?
Ella sigue en su baranda,
verde carne, pelo verde,
soñando en la mar amarga.
*
Compadre, quiero cambiar
mi caballo por su casa,
mi montura por su espejo,
mi cuchillo por su manta.
Compadre, vengo sangrando,
desde los montes de Cabra.
Si yo pudiera, mocito,
ese trato se cerraba.
Pero yo ya no soy yo,
ni mi casa es ya mi casa.
Compadre, quiero morir
decentemente en mi cama.
De acero, si puede ser,
con las sábanas de holanda.
¿No ves la herida que tengo
desde el pecho a la garganta?
Trescientas rosas morenas
lleva tu pechera blanca.
Tu sangre rezuma y huele
alrededor de tu faja.
Pero yo ya no soy yo,
ni mi casa es ya mi casa.
Dejadme subir al menos
hasta las altas barandas,
dejadme subir, dejadme,
hasta las verdes barandas.
Barandales de la luna
por donde retumba el agua.
*
Ya suben los dos compadres
hacia las altas barandas.
Dejando un rastro de sangre.
Dejando un rastro de lágrimas.
Temblaban en los tejados
farolillos de hojalata.
Mil panderos de cristal,
herían la madrugada.
*
Verde que te quiero verde,
verde viento, verdes ramas.
Los dos compadres subieron.
El largo viento, dejaba
en la boca un raro gusto
de hiel, de menta y de albahaca.
¡Compadre! ¿Dónde está, dime?
¿Dónde está mi niña amarga?
¡Cuántas veces te esperó!
¡Cuántas veces te esperara,
cara fresca, negro pelo,
en esta verde baranda!
*
Sobre el rostro del aljibe
se mecía la gitana.
Verde carne, pelo verde,
con ojos de fría plata.
Un carámbano de luna
la sostiene sobre el agua.
La noche su puso íntima

como una pequeña plaza.
Guardias civiles borrachos,
en la puerta golpeaban.
Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar.
Y el caballo en la montaña

Federico Garcia Lorca*

Lyrical, Passionate, Elemental.......2003-10-23

I saw BLOOD WEDDING and THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA on television during the '50s or '60s. I loved them so much, I got the books out of the library read and re-read them during high school.

Garcia Lorca is a master of language and poetry. His plays and poems are romantic, lyrical, and passionate.

THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA, BLOOD WEDDING, AND YERMA center on the urgent sexuality of women and the rage and pain that come when that sexuality is denied or thwarted. Lorca's plays are not pornographic or sexually explicit--rather they deal with drives, yearnings, impulses that inevitably flower, and how different characters in the play are affected by social pressures that allow--or restrain--her from expressing these ancient needs.

One reviewer included a quote in his review, and so will I--this poem will perhaps give the reader a sense of his style:

The Gypsy and the Wind

Playing her parchment moon
Precosia comes
along a watery path of laurels and crystal lights.
The starless silence, fleeing
from her rhythmic tambourine,
falls where the sea whips and sings,
his night filled with silvery swarms.
High atop the mountain peaks
the sentinels are weeping;
they guard the tall white towers
of the English consulate.
And gypsies of the water
for their pleasure erect
little castles of conch shells
and arbors of greening pine.

Playing her parchment moon
Precosia comes.
The wind sees her and rises,
the wind that never slumbers.
Naked Saint Christopher swells,
watching the girl as he plays
with tongues of celestial bells
on an invisible bagpipe.

Gypsy, let me lift your skirt
and have a look at you.
Open in my ancient fingers
the blue rose of your womb.

Precosia throws the tambourine
and runs away in terror.
But the virile wind pursues her
with his breathing and burning sword.

The sea darkens and roars,
while the olive trees turn pale.
The flutes of darkness sound,
and a muted gong of the snow.

Precosia, run, Precosia!
Or the green wind will catch you!
Precosia, run, Precosia!
And look how fast he comes!
A satyr of low-born stars
with their long and glistening tongues.

Precosia, filled with fear,
now makes her way to that house
beyond the tall green pines
where the English consul lives.

Alarmed by the anguished cries,
three riflemen come running,
their black capes tightly drawn,
and berets down over their brow.

The Englishman gives the gypsy
a glass of tepid milk
and a shot of Holland gin
which Precosia does not drink.

And while she tells them, weeping,
of her strange adventure,
the wind furiously gnashes
against the slate roof tiles.

Now imagine these words in Spanish!

read and buy this book!!.......2003-01-26

garcia lorca is simply a person who must be read.

And where has gone the Argentine "Valsa de Requerda??"" Where?

Spain not Peru.......2001-08-03

The trilogy by FGL, Yerma, Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba is set in Spain not Peru. They are an excellent portrayal of life in rural Spain during those times. A must read for anyone, but especially those who are studying Spanish literature. Allthough most widely known as a poet, FGL displays his talent for drama with these plays.

Simply brilliant.......2000-03-10

Lorca uses simple mathematical expressions to convey emotions. A colour, for example white, combined with an object, for example a baby in the opening sequence of Yerma, will add up to a symbolic meaning where either two factors can be used somewhere else. Basically, anything white is a dream of happiness which is destroyed by an event. This very basic set of symbols and the application of "equations" makes Lorca one of the most powerful and accessible writers i've come accross. Oh and the stories are good too (!)

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Blood Wedding
Sex, Violence, and Horses
Chose to perform

Blood Wedding: A Play
Federico Garcia Lorca
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ASIN: 0571190065

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Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes's version stays close in spirit and letter to the original Spanish. With marvellous directness, he fuses Lorca's vision to his own, and the result is a powerful poetic text which captures all the violence and pathos of the play for an English-speaking audience.

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Blood Wedding.......2000-06-12

This is going to short, but I found the play below standards set by the author. There is weak imagery combined by poor, ineffective dialogue, yet there are nice character settings. There is a nice story line combining fire and passion in Leonardo's case with love for the bride, yet it is let down by the poor use of language. It is good for reading before bed, but other than that, I'd say "NO", like the "Just Say NO" drug ads.

Sex, Violence, and Horses.......1999-06-07

Lorca is often called the 20th century's greatest Spanish dramatist, and his skill with poetry in images of knives, sex, love, blood, horses and the moon illuminates this English translation. While my knowledge of Spanish is limited, the conflict of a Bride longing for but yet resisting another man who has already fathered a child by his Wife is poignantly portrayed in this version. The other man (Leonardo) rides a horse nearly to death, and rides like mad to see his about-to-be-married love beyond the peering eyes of others. His driven horse stands "down there stretched out, with his eyeballs bulging, heaving as if he'd just come back from the end of the world." The conflicts of love and the Bridegroom's Mother, who has lost her husband and her other son to violence, and the building passion, hate, love and the continual imagery of the wild horse--representing Leonardo himself?--build in poetic images and language that begins in the real and subtly transforms to surrealistic images of the moon who exposes the hidden shadows, then returns to the poetically real. In some aspects, the images of horse and rider hint at the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but a knowledge of them is unnecessary to experience the passion of this play written by a friend of the then young Salvador Dali. The play is worth reading for its visual imagery alone, but it also encompasses a powerful story of passion, betrayal, hate, violence and love.

Chose to perform.......1998-05-15

This will be a very brief review, but basically we have chosen this book to perform for or theatre studies cat. It is a really good play, and I recomend it to anyone who likes reading plays.

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La casa de Bernarda Alba
Buena Obra De Teatro
POWERFUL, ROMANTIC....
muy interesanta para los estudiantes de espaniol
the strougle for traditions

LA Casa De Bernarda Alba
Federico Garcia Lorca
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La última obra de teatro que Lorca dejo terminada, pero no llegaría a verla representada.

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La casa de Bernarda Alba.......2006-01-15

Federico Garca Lorca vi la luz en el mismo ao cuando su pas se vea enfrascado en lo que muchos han llamado la primera guerra imperialista de la poca moderna, la guerra hispanoamericana, en Cuba, donde Espaa perdi su ltima adorada colonia a los Estados Unidos de Norteamrica. Naci el 5 de Junio de 1898 en Fuente Vaqueros, parte de los pueblos de soto de Roma, no lejos de la ciudad de Granada, llamada sta por muchos, como un lugar de ensueos por su contraste entre la Espaa cristiana y la musulmana, ya que esa ciudad medieval presenci, quizs como ninguna otra, la fusin de dos mundos, el cristiano y el musulmn, viviendo ambos por algn tiempo en armona.

Se dice que de pequeo Federico era hbil y conversador, amador de la msica, convertido mas tarde en poeta y recitando abiertamente en lugares pblicos. Como muchos de su poca decidi estudiar Filosofa y Leyes, en la Universidad de Granada, pero finalmente lo abandona para dedicarse al estudio de la literatura, el arte y teatro, en Madrid. Lorca es incluido en el grupo de artistas conocidos como "La Generacin del 27", que incluye a otros como Salvador Dal, Luis Buuel y Rafael Alberti. Muere asesinado el 19 de Agosto de 1936, por un Falangista-Franquista en tiempos de la guerra civil espaola, acusado de peligroso por sus ideas favorecientes a los republicanos, y despus de ser obligado a cavar en tierra su propia tumba. Hoy es considerado por muchos como el poeta y dramaturgo ms grande del siglo XX. La pieza teatral "La casa de Bernarda Alba" fue su ltimo e interminable escrito.

La casa de Bernarda Alba es un drama que termina en tragedia. La trama y su estructura sucesiva empieza con la muerte de Antonio Mara Benavides, el segundo esposo de Bernarda, exponente del matz histrico padre-patriarca, y sta grotesca personaje, liberada ahora de su yugo, lo impone casi vengativamente sobre el resto de su casa, ms que nada sobre sus propias hijas; bajo sta opresin se encontraba igualmente Espaa, la cual se haba liberado un da aparentemente de la monarqua, pero ahora estaba subyugada y oprimida por una nueva dictadura hogarea, en vuestra propia casa. Los personajes llevan un dialogo que le da a todo un doble significado, abrazando el impacto social. Es interesante ver como son cinco hijas, y nos hace pensar, que como simbolismo, Lorca tuvo en mente la divisin de Espaa en cinco regiones. La diferencia de clases es un constante en esta obra teatral. Bernarda le echa en cara a La Poncia que ellas eran de diferentes clases. "Los tengo porque puedo tenerlos. Y t no los tienes porque sabes muy bin cul es tu orgen." Esto, como en todas las sociedades, egostamente se transmite de generacin en generacin, y as vemos mas tarde a su hija Magdalena expresando: Cada clase tiene que hacer lo suyo!

Las diferencias no son meramente sociales; Lorca, con su estrategia textual, nos deja ver el sello patriarcal de la vida rural en esa Granada de aos turbulentos, y a su vez es una denuncia al desequilibrado trato hacia la mujer en una sociedad donde el hombre estaba exento de pecar a su antojo, mientras la mujer deba conformarse en silencio sin exigir sus derechos como esposa, madre y persona, a ser respetada con igual dignidad. "Los hombres necesitan estas cosas. Se les perdona todo. Nacer mujer es el peor castigo."

Dentro del hogar de Bernarda vemos una tirana enclaustrada entre sus propias paredes, de la misma forma en que los Falangistas comenzaban a llevar de su mano a Espaa, encerrada en sus cuatro vientos y plagada en su privacidad de falsos conceptos puritansimos alejados de la verdad que Dios nos quiere transmitir. Recin en poder, Bernarda, como los Falangistas y Franco, imponiendo y tratando de controlar el destino de su gente: "Con perlas o sin ellas, las cosas son como uno se las propone". A su vez vemos a Federico sabiamente criticando a una iglesia alejada de aquella que naci un da en Beln, cuando Cristo trajo la Luz a ste mundo. No por casualidad llama a la madre de Bernarda, Mara Josefa , llevando en s misma los nombres de Mara y Jos, padres terrenales de Jess, cargando inexplicablemente en sus brazos al beb-ovejita, que en el sacrificio antiguo-testamentario semejaba al nio que un dia iba a nacer y sacrificarse por el pecado de la humanidad. Aqu Mara Josefa lo trae a la vista porque Lorca nos dice que para l quizs sea una esperanza, de ah que el canto de ella simbolice al de los ngeles celestiales, y el camino ofrecido: "Vamos a los ramos del portal de Beln", la ltima esperanza predecesora de la tragedia que se acercaba.

Un personaje que no habla pero esta all, presente, con una constancia imprescindible es Pepe el Romano, simbolizando sin temor al Papa Romano. No est-pero est, representando, como el enamorado de las hijas de Bernarda, a una institucin plagada por escndalos lascivos y acciones ocultas tras el poder, y el magnetismo que sto representa entre un gallinero sediento por la visita del gallo. Es interesante ver como Pepe el Romano, comparado incluso con un caballo garan, no estaba-pero estaba. No hablaba pero sus acciones repercutan dentro de la casa, fomentando el idlico amor de todos hacia l, aun siendo perverso, pero necesitado entre un mar de desesperacin y ardientes deseos. Visto entonces, como un santo hermoso , era digno de adulacin y adoracin. As el Papa Romano, no estaba en Espaa, pero estaba. Visto como el santo de los santos, usurpando el titulo de Vicario (substituto) de Cristo y Padre Santo, honores pertenecientes solos al Hijo de Dios, influa no obstante, aunque en un Latn que nadie reconociera, a un pas que se vanagloriaba de Catlico, as y todo, so pena de vivir bajo un doble yugo: el de Roma y el de Franco, el supuestamente espiritual y el secular, el de Pepe el Romano y el de Bernarda.
En esta obra vemos el uso de tropos, y as metforas tales como "habla...me tienes preparada la cuchilla" , es decir, la lengua; o "En el subi la voz que pareca un cntaro" . Hiprboles tales cual "Era la una de la madrugada y suba fuego de la tierra" . Smiles como "He sido arrastrada por una maroma" o "Tiene el cielo unas estrellas como puos" . El estribillo y la rima asonante estn presentes en la obra igualmente:

Ya salen los segadores
en busca de las espigas;
se llevan los corazones
de las muchachas que miran.

Aqu vemos rima asonante y encadenada (abab), versos octoslabos, llanos, de arte menor y estrofa cuarteta. Hay estribillos repetitivos como "Descansa en paz" . Las acotaciones de escenas son muy importantes en las tres que representa ste drama teatral, ellas nos ayudan a entender la dimensin escnica, ya sea escrita o hablada, trabajando en el plano textual para representarnos el plano espectacular. Estas acotaciones nos dan un significado directo en el entendimiento de la casa de Bernarda Alba, as como del desenvolvimiento fsico de los personajes durante el transcurso del tiempo. El dialogo va construyendo a los personajes hasta que nos lleva a compenetrarnos con ellos por sus acciones, y en casos, por su descripcin fsica, como cuando Magdalena (una especie de Mara magdalena), nos habla de Angustias frente a Martirio. "Porque si con veinte aos pareca un palo vestido, qu ser ahora que tiene cuarenta!" .

El verdugo de nuestra historia no se pierde aqu. "El dinero lo puede todo! Tampoco el sueo de pureza, como en la acotacin del comienzo del Acto Segundo, cuando se nos describe la habitacin blanca interior de la casa de Bernarda. Maria Josefa, como personaje, se manifiesta alegricamente cuando narra cmo su vecina tena un nio al cual ella le daba chocolates, y Adela no interrumpe su crtica social como "perseguida por los que dicen que son decentes" .
Hay un incidente o complicacin en la obra, entre acciones y palabras que ponen en conflicto fuerzas antagnicas como el amor y el odio, la hermandad y la enemistad, todos entre caldos de pasin y violencia humana. El tope o clmax, lo vemos cuando Adela, la hija menor se suicida. Su canto de rebelin, tan repetido en diferentes ocasiones, no le vali para afrontar el futuro que le esperaba en su comunidad. Estara embarazada de Pepe el Romano? Si vamos a las fras y casi finales palabras de su madre "Mi hija a muerto vrgen!" nos podra parecer que el falso honor de la sociedad haba sido finalmente preservado en medio de los murmullos malintencionados, pero si recordamos cuando al final del Acto Segundo Adela se estremece frente a La Poncia y le dice: "Un hijo?", o seguidamente en la conversacin la acotacin nos indica como Adela se contrajo "cogiendose el vientre", entonces no menos que podemos entender su final trgico. Las fuerzas oscuras, malignas e hipcritas que la rodeaban eran superiores al amor y comprensin que poda haber esperado al menos de su madre; no se diga ya de la sociedad con su conciencia indiferente; prefiriendo ella pues, abandonar este mundo antes que tenerlo que llevar de por vida sobre sus dbiles y humanos hombros. El escritor nos dirige a esas fuerzas que se oponen a la condicin humana, asi como la inaptitud para tolerar y sobrepasar su tragedia fisiolgica colectiva.

Federico Garca Lorca, llevado tan jven de entre los vivos, nos deja con sta en nuestras manos, el sabor amargo y absurdo de nuestras sociedades acaparadas de influencias sociales, polticas y econmicas, arrastrndonos entre ignorancia y miedo, aniquilando nuestra dignidad humana con abusos, y desterrndonos injustamente la esperanza de mirar al Cielo, y que como Martirio, tengamos que desesperadamente gritar: "A m las cosas de tejas arriba no me importan nada" Todo nos debera importar, si es que queremos ser parte importante del dilema de la vida.

Alejandro Roque.

Bibliografa:

1- Friedman, Valdivieso, Virgilio. Aproximaciones al estudio de la literatura hispnica 5.ed. The McGraw-Hill companies. 2003.

2- Salvatore J. Poeta. Poetic and Social Patterns of Symmetry and Contrast in Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba. JStor: Hispania, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Dec. 1999).

Buena Obra De Teatro.......2005-09-27

Hola,Como estan?:

Definitivamente puedo decir que Garcia Lorca es uno de mis autores preferidos,como estudiante de teatro,esta es una de sus mejore obras y de verdad que se las recomiendo. Personalmente amo el Trabajo de Garcia Lorca y por eso le doy un 5 stars. Espero qu ele guste esta obra tanto como me gusto a mi.

POWERFUL, ROMANTIC...........2001-11-02

This is an incredible play, and it is hard to imagine that it was written so long ago, for it has an everlasting effect... It deals with culture, bitterness, love, loss, tragedy and family.

It is above all a book about the great expectations a young girl has with life, and how her mother and sisters destroy them. It is a sad tale, but it is written in such a powerful way that you simply cannot put the book down without finishing it.

Es un libro conmovedor que hable de la cultura, la familia, la tragedia, la separacion y el amor...
Los personajes son muy reales, crudos y a veces muy crueles.
Habla sobre una joven y sus suenos, asi como las consecuencias de sonar y de querer lograr mas de lo que se esperado.
Es una historia triste y tragica pero escrita y manejada de una manera incomparable por un escritor brillante.

muy interesanta para los estudiantes de espaniol.......2000-10-25

i have read this play 3 times in classes for spanish language literature, and i just can't get enough. it is tough at times, vocabulary and such, BUT well worth it! tugs at the heartstrings and takes a good look at the way women were treated and considered in those times. buena suerte y si alguien quiere platicar conmigo de esta obra, mandame un email a tcherepashka@aol.com!

the strougle for traditions.......2000-10-23

this book is about a family all women who live in spain , and who fight family traditions, genertions, and woamns rights.

Abriendo Puertas: Antologia De Literatura En Espanol, Tomo II (Spanish Reader)

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essays & poetry (bilingual), ed Christopher Maurer

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Duende.......2001-10-16

This is the one book which I believe all artists should read - I have the challenge of teaching my classmates to understand how to find Duende soon so I know this is a great resource.

A masterpiece.......1999-12-14

Lorca's essay, "the Play and Theory of the Duende", should be required reading for artists in any field. A life-changing concept, rendered beautifully in poetic prose.

informative and proud.......1999-09-17

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The Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Revised)

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Great poems, adequate translation
Spanish made easy
Poetry of Lorca is superb!
The Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition
Beautiful, magical

The Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Revised)
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Long regarded as one of the premier Spanish modernists, Federico García Lorca's newly revised Collected Poems is a welcome contribution to this outstanding poet's prolific body of work. This bilingual edition includes many recently discovered poems and revised translations, updating the completeness of the verse produced by Lorca during his short life (he died at 38). Lorca's poetry is quirky, playful, not only filled with orange groves and olive trees, but a strange, physical world where a river has "garnet whiskers" or there exists a "recumbent sky" or "mummified ocean." Lorca wrote love poems, though we can never be sure what exactly is desired. His poetry isn't abstract, but the images are sometimes a bit out of reach--if anything, he tried to give the abstract a physical presence. For example, a lovers' exchange is given dimension in "The Poet Tells the Truth": "Let the skein never end / of I love you you love me, ever burnt / with decrepit sun and old moon." What Lorca wrote of a friend gored by a bull in "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" seems applicable to his poetry generally: "I sing of his elegance in words that moan / and I remember a sad breeze in the olive grove." Collected Poems is an important addition to any poetry collection, especially for those unfamiliar with Lorca or those who wish to read the poems in their original Spanish. --Michael Ferch

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A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work

"And I who was walking
with the earth at my waist,
saw two snowy eagles
and a naked girl.
The one was the other
and the girl was neither."
--from "Qasida of the Dark Doves"

Federico García Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. Christopher Maurer, a leading Lorca scholar and editor, has substantially revised FSG's earlier edition of the collected poems of this charismatic and complicated figure, who--as Maurer says in his illuminating Introduction--"spoke unforgettably of all that most interests us: the otherness of nature, the demons of personal identity and artistic creation, sex, childhood, and death."

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Great poems, adequate translation.......2007-01-23

Garcia Lorca's poems are beautiful in Spanish. The translations in English seem a little heavy or awkward. But, in Spanish, they're lovely.

Spanish made easy.......2007-01-10

I don't know if this is the best way to work on learning Spanish, but it's certainly one of the least painful. It's great to have the original Spanish and the English translation opposite each other. I can't think of a better way to work on your pronunciation than to read these poems out loud to yourself [or others if they're interested]. The musical sound of the poetry makes you love the language and want to learn it. Maybe someday I finally will. In the meantime just reading and speaking it is it's own reward.

Poetry of Lorca is superb!.......2006-11-04

I usually find most modern poetry boring. Not Lorca's. His poems are short but potent and piercing, full of vivid imagery. His Spanish is difficult to translate literally into English while still retaining vibrancy, but this translator did a good job. The Spanish poetry is presented on the left-hand pages and its English version on the right-hand pages for easy comparison. Not a literal translation by any means, but a very effective one. A strong recommend.

The Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition .......2006-08-13

Frederico Garcia Lorca is wonderful as always. This gives my granddaughters who know some Spanish and my friends who do not speak an opportunity to read and enjoy him.

Beautiful, magical.......2006-04-03

Lorca was such an amazing poet and this book captures him in all his dynamic beauty and magic. The translations are wonderful and its bilingual and the selection vast. If you like poetry, get this book.

The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama About Women in Villages of Spain

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**SPOILERS!***
house of bernarda alba

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Review of Book on Spanish Novel (Translated).......2006-03-18

Provided me with the help I needed in order to understand some of the archaic language used during that period.

**SPOILERS!***.......2005-12-12

I have never SEEN this play (I wish they had a video of it or a performance of it nearby), but I read it from my Drama class and it's quite good. Set in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century in Spain, Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba represents a world of oppression for women in Spain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The characters in the play are all women, and the patriarchal society commands these women to be pure beings. Any sign of sexual desire outside of marriage is forbidden. It is obvious that Bernarda's household is strict; in the first scene Bernarda will not even let her servants verbally mourn for the loss of her husband. She scolds one servant for openly crying, and tells another girl not to speak in front of older people. Bernarda is very strict with her household and makes sure that social and religious rituals are followed to the letter even though she does not really feel that much of a loss for her husband, or so her actions lead the reader to believe so. She seems to be too caught up in the rituals of the mourning and the funeral to care about the deceased. She demands that her daughters wear black and mourn for eight years while not considering what sort of impact this may have on their lives. Bernarda even says in Act 3 that "A daughter who's disobedient stops being a daughter and becomes an enemy" (page 1034, fourth edition). These daughters are clearly oppressed and are expected to be pure no matter what the consequences are.
One major theme of the play is purity. In the Spanish culture during this time, women were expected to be sexually pure. One interesting symbol to represent this purity is the white room described in the stage directions in Act 2. Bernarda's daughters are described in the stage directions as sewing in a white room, getting their dowry ready. It is interesting that the room is white because white represents purity because white has no blemishes. Bernarda's daughters are forced to by pure because religion and culture demand them to be so. Any promiscuous acts by women were not only frowned upon but were even considered to be punishable by death. In Act 2, Librada's unmarried daughter is ostracized and brought into the streets to be killed because she tried to hide her pregnancy by killing her baby, so it is clear that this society is very strict about sexual purity.
There are some symbols in the play the represent an urge to break away from this sexual oppression. In Act 3 when Barnarda is talking to her friend Prudencia, a stallion that is locked in a stall kicks the house because he wants to be freed from the stall. The stallion represents the need for freedom and for the need to express sexual desire. The daughters in the play have been so oppressed by their mother that they are dying (quite literally in Adela's case) to get out from under their mother's control so that they can be free and live as they desire. As one would expect, the daughters have sexual desires and passion but cannot show these desires without being punished by their mother.
Adela's green party dress is also a symbol of this need to be freed from sexual oppression. When Adela should be mourning and wearing black, she goes outside in this green party dress in front of the men. Adela is a free spirit who wants nothing more than freedom. In Act 1, when she is scolded for wearing the green dress and told to get used to mourning, she cries, "I will not get used to I! I can't be locked up." Adela is tired of being told what to do, and her relationship and pregnancy with Pepe el Romano is a symbol of rebellion.
Adela's hanging is another symbol. It symbolizes the fact that people need to be free. Adela tried to escape her life of oppression, but everything went wrong with her plans. She had expected to have a future with Pepe el Romano, but that was ruined when he was engaged to her sister. Adela could not take life anymore, so she "freed" herself by killing herself. She was finally freed at all costs. The hanging shows the affects of oppression. Oppression caused Adela to "go off the deep end" and end her life in order to escape it. What is ironic is that her mother is concerned more with the fact that she did not die a virgin than the fact that her daughter is dead, which truly shows Bernarda's hypocritical character.
The main themes in the play were oppression and purity, and there are many symbols that paint a picture for the audience. The images are vivid- the stallion must be released because of his sexual desire, the rooms are painted white because Bernarda wants her daughters to be pure, Adela wears a green party dress to rebel against society, and Adela hangs herself in order to finally escape from her oppression.

house of bernarda alba.......2001-01-24

I have played Poncia in this play and I really enjoyed it. We only did a short part out of it but I wanted to do more. I recommend reading this book but if you can perform it!

The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (New Directions Paperbook)

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The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (New Directions Paperbook)
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More Duende, Please.......2007-03-26

If you love Lorca, you'll appreciate this book. Lorca is the master of Duende, but he does it in such an artful way that you don't feel all gloomy. In fact, by underscoring the shadow of death, Lorca shows us the beauty in life. If you read this book, you're sure to enjoy the lyrical mastery of one of Spain's greatest poets.

wonderfully lyrical and romantic .......2005-11-02

These wonderfully lyrical and romantic poems span from 1921 to 1936, the year of his untimely execution. This edition include both the original Spanish and English translations (including a translation by Langston Hughes).

I particular like some of the sounds "Poem of the Saeta" "They come from remote regions of sorrow". His trip to New York, produced the notable "King of Harlem" and "Ode to Walt Whitman". The final series of poems on "Gacela of .." and "Casida of the .." only hint at the themes he may have developed later in his life.

brilliant, forbidding, and intense.......2003-12-06

This volume is bilingual and in this case the English translations can hold their own against the Spanish (and Galician) originals. It culls poems from every period in the poet's life, thereby giving the reader a huge range of Garcia Lorca's work - from the talking lizards to the masterpiece "Poet in New York" to traditional gacelas.

While some of the poems seem superficial, others are loaded with meaning. Some critics have said that Lorca's preoccupation with death seemed to foreshadow his own, which came in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. Indeed, many of these poems have dark overtones. Lorca never loses the passion and intensity, however. His love poems are majestic in their images and emotion, which are surprisingly undimmed in translation.

In particular, Lorca's language - especially his metaphors and similes - are unusual and striking. His imagery conjures up fantastical scenes; maybe one could say he writes the way that Salvador Dali painted. If you're looking for an introduction to Lorca (or if you're approaching him with some trepidation), then I'd suggest this book. It will give you a good feel for his development as a poet as well as his overal style.

Garcia Lorca is one of the Greatest poets to ever write........2002-07-07

Garcia Lorca's poetry moves, his words each have their own color.
As I read his poems I feel like I am being presented with a little gift. His words are beats I cannot escape. I need an open window so I can see the sky whenever I read his poetry.

Mágico puro / Pure magic.......2002-05-11

There are no words to adequately describe García Lorca who was one of the greatest artists of the last century. The poems in "Selected Poems" represent some of the best of his collections, "Romancero Gitano", "Libro de Poemas", and the dark, brooding "Poema del Cante Jondo". Stephen Spender's excellent translation manages to preserve García Lorca's exquisite imagery without making it sound maudlin or overstated. García Lorca really has to be read in the original Spanish to be able to get a complete realization of his incredible talent as a poet, but those monolingual English speakers to whom the book is directed will be able to appreciate through this translation what a genius was lost to the world when at the age of 38 he was assassinated in the Spanish Civil War. García Lorca astonishes and amazes us with his brilliant artistry, his deceptively simple yet complex imagery, and the voice of haunting pathos that is surely the voice of Spain. Even readers who don't particularly like poetry will be held spellbound by the poems presented here.

Poet in New York (Poetical Works of Federico Garcia Lorca)

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Nightmare in New York
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Poet in New York (Poetical Works of Federico Garcia Lorca)
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Written while Federico García Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929-30, Poet in New York is one of the most important books Lorca produced, and certainly one of the most important books ever published about New York City. Indeed, it is a book that changed the direction of poetry in both Spain and the Americas, a pathbreaking and defining work of modern literature.

In honor of the poet's centenary, the celebrated Lorca scholar Christopher Maurer has revised this strange, timeless, and vital book of verse, using much previously unavailable or untranslated material: Lorca's own manuscript of the entire book; witty and insightful letters from the poet to his family describing his feelings about America and his temporary home there (a dorm room in Columbia's John Jay Hall); the annotated photographs which accompany those letters; and a prose poem missing from previous editions. Complementing these new addtions are extensive notes and letters, revised versions of all the poems, and an interpretive lectures by Lorca himself.

An excellent introduction to the work of one of the key figures of modern poetry, this bilingual edition of Poet in New York is also a thrilling exposition of the American city in the 20th century.

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Nightmare in New York.......2006-05-08

Lorca had a pessimistic and dark impression of the New York during the Great Depression years. Lorca describes a city populated by ghosts and nightmares. This is one of the most shocking poetic works of the XX century.
I recommend the CD 'Omega'. It is an experimental 'flamenco' work by the `cantaor' Enrique Morente, based on the poems of `Poet in New York'. This music album will help you to go deeper into the book.

Lorca: A True Definition of a Poet.......2005-07-09

After reading "Poeta en Nueva York" I found out that it was really worth learning spanish. I am not exaggerating but some of Lorca's verses make me cry. They have so much emotion and fantasy in them, and they talk about experiences that take place deep inside me. The poems are surrealist but that is also what makes them amazing. The best poem is probably "Fabula y Rueda de Los Tres Amigos" where Lorca beautifully conveys his feelings towards his relationships with others and the struggle he sees within them. Strangely enough at the end of the poem he describes a lot of events concerning his death which actually coincided with his murder a few years later. Lorca's relation with the moon reflected through his simple yet overwhelming words is also charming and inspiring. I discovered through them that there was a lot more in that celestial body orbiting the earth than what I used to see before. You will feel that poetry is just flowing out of Federico. He didn't to exert a lot of effort to sound that marvellous and that right.

powerful and chilling account...........2004-11-27

After reading "A Poet in New York," I can say this much:
"I don't think I am planning a trip to New York very soon." Lorca's account of the city was so visceral, raw and cruel, I could feel the hauntingly dead interactions between people, and those people's relationships to the material world around them. The accounts of violence in the streets are equally as cold and boldly unapologetic as his observations of the early morning hours when the city is first waking up.

Gabriel Garcia Lorca truly shows that when it comes to the movements as a city with ties to industry, capitalistic gain and material wealth, there is no division between the life of the human being and the life of the machine. There is almost an automated, "conveyor belt" feeling to the mechanical movement of life in the city. As soon as energy is poured into an endeavor, it is also poured out just as easily. People are as disposable as sheet metal. Their blood, their organs and their instruments of movement could be ripped away and demolished as quickly and non-emotionally as one would destroy the framework of a building and it would be of no concern to anyone else.

I believe that Lorca's observations and journal entries are a reflection of not only the mindset of one of the most well known cities in the world, applicable to the 1930s, but is also quite accurately a reflection of the state of the world today.

One of the most complex and rich books of Lorca.......1998-01-02

Federico García Lorca is among the most celebrated Spanish poets of all time. The beauty of his writing has given him a place in the gallery of the best Spanish writers. This book he wrote when he was a student at Columbia University relies on the influence he got from the surrealistic movements that were running on Europe at the time. Thus, it gets far from the poetic language used in his other books, most notably in Romancero Gitano: verses leave the regularity of the romance to explore new and rich arrangements; the metaphors grow more complex and ellaborate, making a delicious challenge to the reader; one can read a poem time and again for days and will still be unsure of its real meaning. Besides this some of the poems reach a new height on Lorca's poetry. To anybody just seeking to discover Lorca and his world, Romancero Gitano seems to be a best approach in my oppinion, but if you know it and like it, I can't help recommending Poet in New York as a new horizon to discover. If your approach to this book is open-minded, you won't be disappointed.

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