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Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)

2 reviews
Federico Garcia Lorca

Penguin Classics, 2001

Good, loud poems
My husband used to read me this book when I was pregnant with my only child. The sound of the poems made her kick. Maybe the poems, but probably it was just the way he read them--in spanish--louder than he ever said anything. My husband never yelled, even when he was angry he just stayed by himself a bit, but he really used to get into these poems. From his childhood, I guess. He tried to ...

Canciones y poemas para niños

1 review
Federico Garcia Lorca

Labor, 1975

Literatura para los más pequeños
Federico García Lorca ofrece con este libro una excelente forma de introducir el amor por la poesía en los niños. Es un placer compartir estos poemas con los más pequeños. Recomiendo este libro a todos aquellos que aprecien la buena literatura infantil. Es un excelente libro para los profesores de español, está demostrado que los niños y jovenes se benefician de la lectura de textos que son ...

Federico Garcia Lorca: Selected Poems

5 reviews
Federico Garcia Lorca

Biographical Publishing Company, 1999

this is the one to buy
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, ...

Collected Poems

8 reviews
Federico Garcia Lorca

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991

Poetry of Lorca is superb!
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 ...

The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics)

8 reviews
Federico Garcia Lorca

Penguin Classics, 2001

Simply brilliant
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 ...

Poet in New York

4 reviews
Federico Garcia Lorca

Grove Pr, 1959

One of the most complex and rich books of Lorca
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 ...

Romancero gitano

2 reviews
Federico García Lorca

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996

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.

Season in Granada

2 reviews
Federico Garcia Lorca, Christopher Maurer

Anvil Press Poetry, 1998

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 uncollected items, including two long poem-sequences and two substantial essays, one of which, "Granada: Paradise Closed to Many", is now published in English for the first time-- its ...

Federico Garcia Lorca Para Ninos

1 review
Federico Garcia Lorca

Susaeta, 1999

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 ...

La zapatera prodigiosa

1 review
Garcia Lorca, Federico, ...

Alianza, 1982

engaging love story
The characters' emotions are so accurately portrayed, emboding the traditional themes of Lorca, that the characters come alive in the scenes. However, the beginning and ending of the play, the struggles between the man and the wife, also portray human nature and the futility of perfect love as Lorca sees it. Good reading, real story.

In Search of Duende (New Directions Bibelot Series)

3 reviews
Federico Garcia Lorca, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, ...

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998

A masterpiece
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.

Sebastian's Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca

1 review
Salvador Dali, Federico Garcia Lorca

Swan Isle Press, 2005

From CHOICE
"This volume gathers an assortment of letters, works, illustrations, and photographs--some previously unpublished. In his superb introduction, Maurer (Spanish, Boston Univ.) re-creates and probes this intense friendship, bringing the reader into the wondrous and exciting world of two extraordinary young men. Written between 1925 and 1936, the letters offer intimate glimpses of this friendship and ...

The Cricket Sings: Poems and Songs for Children

3 reviews
Federico Garcia Lorca

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1980

Just learning the man
Fun to read with my daughter. She asks to hear the stories of the bugs that cry (actually a lizard). Great fun to read the spanish, with accompanying english; Kudos to the creative editor!

Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca

11 reviews
Federico Garcia Lorca, Donald M. Allen

wonderfully lyrical and romantic
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 ...

La casa de Bernarda Alba

6 reviews
Federico Garcia Lorca, Joaquin Foradellas

Espasa Calpe, S. A., 1997

POWERFUL, ROMANTIC....
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 ...

Poesias Completas de Federico Garcia Lorca (no)

1 review
Federico Garcia Lorca, Editores Mexicanos Unidos

Editores Mexicanos Unidos, S.A., 1999

Lorca in full
A great book for anyone into Spanish poetry, especially Garcia Lorca's. The poems are on pages with enough room to make notations (as all writers probably do) and his surprisingly compact for all its content (650+ pages). A must read! I'm thrilled to see amazon embracing the Spanish Language. Hopefully, they'll expand to Italian, and French and other langauges.

Gypsy Ballads: Romancero Gitano (Hispanic Classic)

1 review
Federico Garcia Lorca, Robert G. Harvard

Aris & Phillips, 1990

Lorca's sublime poetry about death and the life of gipsies
Federico Garcia Lorca, of Spanish origin, is considered to be the second best poet of all times (after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, writer of "Don Quijote") by many literary critics, and for no small reason. His work "Romancero Gitano" is a collection of baroque-styled poems about death and the life and superstitions of Spanish gipsies. His style is remarkably fluent and entertaining, yet ...

Poet in New York: A Bilingual Edition

1 review
Federico Garcia Lorca

Grove Press, 2007

An excellent and thrilling new translation.
Federico Garcia Lorca arrived in New York just in time to witness the chaos created by the 1929 stock market crash. Lorca was totally unprepared for what he found in New York, as Pablo Medina and Mark Statman point out in their excellent and thrilling new translation of "Poet in New York": "Coming to rid himself of grief, he encounters an abundance of grief; coming to witness the power of human ...

Romancero gitano/ Poeta en Nueva York

1 review
Federico Garcia Lorca

Grupo Editorial Tomo, 2008

Two classics / Las dos obras classicas
Lorca's "Gypsy Romances", written in the Andalusian cante jondo ("deep song") style, is a collection of strange and beautiful ballads. His "Poet in New York" is quite different. It contains surrealist impressions of his time in the titular city. Both exhibit the quality of "duende" for which Lorca is justly acclaimed. If you are not already familiar with these two world-famous works, you might ...

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