Poet in New York

´Lorca's long out-of-print poetic sequence about New York City, newly translated in this bilingual edition, is as contemporary as today's headlines: slums, racism, violence, and cries of loneliness punctuate this verse. Written during the Spanish playwright's nine-month stopover in 1929-30, and steeped in surrealistic technique, [this] unrelentingly negative antihymn reads the urban condition as symbolic of our culture's materialistic corruption of love and its degradation of nature . . . This [edition] is accompanied by Lorca's letters and a lecture he delivered on this lyrical work.´
Federico Garcia Lorca, Christopher Maurer (Edited by), Christopher Maurer (Introducer), Greg Simon (Translator), Steven F White (Translator)
ISBN: 978-0141185828
Editorial PENGUIN
12.9 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm
304 pages