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A poignant and dazzling celebration of the magical city of Granada, where Lorca grew up, to which he returned -frequently in his life and in his imagination, and where he would die.

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Like a vacation to Granada
I have not been to Granada, but I have felt the colors, and there are colors everywhere! "The wind was red", "What grey moon at nine o'clock drained your cheek of blood","The ear of corn, is holding its hard, yellow, laugher". This book is a visit to a historic city "with all the elegance and light sent by the Sierra " Nevada. There is a feeling of flowing water with many water allegories, not just from the River Darro but even include the Allhambra Palace (the fortress from 1239) has its own flow ("to be alone with the breeze that comes from old hills of the Allhambra").The smells are delicious, with "a breeze of sweet basil" and a "bonfire of saffron".

What a great thing it must have been to receive his letters! "A few days ago, a green-purple moon, appeared in the bluish mist of the Sierra Nevada, and just across the street a woman was singing a cradle song that tangled itself into the landscape like a golden stream".They really reveal who he is, "I imagine myself to be an immense violet-colored dragonfly over the backwaters of emotion".

Even if that Granada of the 1930's no longer exists, or, if even then, existed only in Lorca's mind, I feel privileged to have experienced it.

Reviews of A Season in Granada
Elizabeth Lowry in TLS (August 7, 1998)

[A] thoughtfully arranged and beautifully produced volume....Although the quantity and strength of the material is impressive --the book contains sixteen previously uncollecteditems, including two long poem-sequences and two substantial essays, one ofwhich, "Granada: Paradise Closed to Many", is now published inEnglish for the first time-- its subject-matter alone would make it anindispensable companion to the rest of Lorca's writing. For this is Lorca'scelebration of Granada, the city to which his family moved when he waseleven and to which he remained emotionally and culturally indebted for therest of his life....

John Burnside in Poetry Review (Summer 1998)

Fewpoets have such highly-developed senses as Lorca (who was also a musicianand an artist); few trust so deeply in the senses of the reader. This,indeed, is one of the great pleasures of reading Lorca's poetry: this senseof privilege, of being included in a rich, subtle and slightly dangeroussensual world. Again, Maurer succeeds admirably, in the selections madehere, in conveying Lorca's world view.... I can think of no bettercelebration of the centenary of this great poet's birth than A Season inGranada; buy it, read it, and encounter, not only a great poet, but themysterious beauty of a great city. ... Read more

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La Casa de Bernarda Alba is a classic drama appropriate as an introductory work for Spanish language courses in literature and culture. This edition has been prepared with non-native Spanish speakers in mind. It includes an introduction (in Spanish) to the author and the work, the complete novella with notes and vocabulary (Spanish-Spanish), a current bibliography and questions in the AP format to facilitate study. ... Read more

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El miembro mas conocido de la generación del 27, Garía Lorca cometió la audacia de acercarse a la literatura popular para incorporarla al proyecto del grupo de escritores españoles que se habían dado a la tarea de fortalecer y hacer más rica la poesía y el ensayo. Romancero gitano es una particular visión de una épica y un sentimiento del pueblo más libre, más romántico y más aventurero. ... Read more

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Wonderful
This is one of the most beautiful books one can ever read. "LLanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias" is a very powerful poem. The strong rhythm will dazzle you. "Romancero Gitano" is written with an eloquent spirit and you will enjoy it as much. I strongly recommend this book and any of Lorca's works.

Got Lorca?
This work by Lorca fortifies and makes the poetry richer. It gives it emotional, moral, and mental strength absent in the literary works of the late 19th and the early 20th century. ... Read more

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Great Read
I have read Blood Wedding and i think that this translation was extremely good. Although the writing was a bit detached, i believe that it just needs a bit more effort to understand the language and the story. It was a powerful play, though, and i recommend it to all.

Great Work
Lorca does not disappoint. The translation is good. Blood Wedding is highly recommended for performance.

Brilliant, passionate, poetic
I was recommended Lorca's work this week by a good friend of mine. He's a genius! His work is poetic. If you're not a fan of poetry (and I can see where people will object to his style, even though I personally adore it) get past the poetry/song of the older women to the ending and you will astonished! Lorca's incredible with his last few pages. They'll leave you completely amazed. This is an amazing translation. If you like the theater AT ALL, I suggest that you at least look into these plays. My favorite is "The House of Bernarda Alba".

I love it!
Blood Wedding was the first show I ever worked backstage for.I loved it then, and I love it now.This is by far the best translation of this work.I would highly recommend, but only to those who understand how to read a play.

"Blood Wedding" - Amateurishly written.
"Three Tragedies" - I only read "Blood Wedding."This play was absolutely horrendous.The writing style was rough and detached.Lorca tried writing passionately and seductively, but it came across as illiterate.The characters did not have any depth.Horrible play.I do not recommend. ... Read more

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Spain's most celebrated dramatist Federico Garca Lorca (1898-1936) was murdered by Nationalist sympathizers shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This volume of translations by Gwynne Edwards contains five plays, four of which-The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife, The Love of Don Perlimpln, The Puppet Play of Don Cristbal, and The Butterfly's Evil Spell-represent the attractive comic strand in Lorca's work and his use of the traditions of farce and puppet play; the fifth, When Five Years Pass, belongs to Lorca's surrealist phase and is one of his most striking and original contributions to the theatre. ... Read more

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Spain's most celebrated dramatist Federico Garca Lorca (1898-1936) was murdered by Nationalist sympathizers shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This volume shows the playwright at his provocative and poetic best and includes two of his most notorious works: The Public, his only openly homosexual drama; and Play Without a Title, a Pirandellian piece in which the blurring of stage and auditorium is combined with strong political overtones. Also included is Lorca's only historical play, the hauntingly lyrical Mariana Pineda. The Public is translated by Henry Livings; the other two plays by Gwynne Edwards. ... Read more

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Lorquiana!
I read this book years ago from cover to cover and I had never even read any Lorca.This book is huge!(500 pages!) But I completed it all.

I think that those interested in the lives of pre-Stonewall gays will find this especially enlightening.Lorca uses Freudian, problematic reasoning for explaining his gayness.Like Gide and many other insecure gays, he harps on feminine gay men.Like Langston Hughes, Yukio Mishima, and again Andre Gide, he was inspired by the homoerotic poetry of Walt Whitman.

In this book, it is implied that Lorca loved Dali and Dali was both repulsed and intrigued by that love.So that scenario of gay man having unrequited love for straight man is played out here.However, in the documentary "Split," the viewer sees Dali courting a she-male.In Manrique's "Eminent M*r*c*n*es," he states that an American man, later in his life, admitted that he and Dali had a sexual relationship.So Gibson's portrayal of Dali as exclusively heterosexual may be inaccurate.

In Lorca's last days, the fascists were taking over Spain and they may have killed him for prejudiced reasons.Now, Spain has a Socialist president who is seriously considering legalizing gay marriage.This book will help to track progress.Lorca may be to Spanish gay men what James Baldwin is to American ones. ... Read more

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Spain's most celebrated dramatist Federico Garca Lorca (1898-1936) was murdered by Nationalist sympathizers shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. His plays are renowned for their evocation of the profound and primitive passions of Spanish peasant life, displaying an innovative mixture of modern dramatic technique with Spanish popular tradition. This volume contains three of his greatest plays and Lorca's intense, lyrical dialogue is perfectly captured in translations of Blood Wedding and Doa Rosita the Spinster by Gwynne Edwards and Yerma by Peter Luke. ... Read more

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This bilingual edition (in Spanish and English) collects Jaime Manrique's lyrical and sensual poems about his childhood in Colombia, memories of his family, and his more recent experiences and loves in Manhattan. Musical and romantic, these poems are in the tradition of Pablo Neruda. ... Read more

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Beautifully Illustrated .. beautiful language
This book contains the poems written by Lorca for children. I read it frequently to my 4yr old daughter, for whom Spanish is her third language. Many of the words and concepts are well beyond the comprehension a small child, but the sonority of the language is so beautiful - with illustrations to match - that she is mesmerized (so am I) as I read her the poems. We have probably between 50 and 100 children's books in Spanish, and this is one of my favorites. ... Read more

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Spain in the twentieth century gave birth to an array of astounding artistic and literary talent, including the passionately iconoclastic writer Federico Garcia Lorca. But his works were ill received in the homophobic atmosphere of institutionalized Spanish criticism. Because of this atmosphere, even today's critics have effectively marginalized and disavowed intimations of homo-affectivity and homoeroticism in the great Spanish works.

This book first appeared in Spain in 1991 as counter-discourse against those prevailing ideological structures. Before its appearance, no significant work had focused on the position of Spanish culture towards homosexuality or on how homosexuality could affect the works of canonical writers. Engaging with homosexuality as an imperative source of meaning in artistic work, this volume rigorously studies the works of Federico Garcia Lorca and several of his marginalized homosexual contemporaries, including Emilio Prados, Luis Cernuda, Juan Gil-Albert, and Salvador Dali. The study relies on the textual evidence presented by these authors to define the homosexual culture as one plagued by the realities of rejection, fear of the law, self-doubts, the lack of an authorized language with which to convey emotions, the awareness of disgust around the individual, the need to accept marginality to find sexual or emotional satisfaction, and the knowledge of one's own social divergence, all of which have an enormous influence on any artist's work.

With this new and updated translation, this work offers English-speaking readers the opportunity to focus on formal aspects of literary expressions of homosexuality. ... Read more