Author(s): Federico Garcia Lorca

Poetry

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 Garcia 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."