Collected Poems

Resumen del libro

Federico García Lorca was the most beloved poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. His work has long been admired for its passionate urgency and haunting evocation of sorrow and loss. Perhaps more persistently than any writer of his time, he sought to understand and accommodate the numinous sources of his inspiration. Though he died at age thirty-eight, he left behind a generous body of poetry, drama, musical arrangements, and drawings, which continue to surprise and inspire.
Christopher Maurer, a leading García Lorca scholar and editor, has brought together new and substantially revised translations by twelve poets and translators, improving on the first edition of Collected Poems, published in 1991. The seminal volume Poet in New York is also included here in its entirety. This is the most comprehensive collection in English of a poet who as Maurer writes 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.

Biografía del autor

Nació en 1898 (Fuente Vaqueros, Granada), y murió fusilado en agosto del 36. Se licenció en Derecho en el año 1923 en la Universidad de Granada, donde también cursó estudios de Filosofía y Letras. Desde 1919 convivió en la Residencia de Estudiantes (Madrid) con artistas y poetas que después formarían la Generación del 27. En 1929 se trasladó a Nueva York para matricularse en la Universidad de Columbia. También fueron trascendentales sus viajes a Cuba, Argentina y Uruguay. Sus obras poéticas entrelazan el lirismo andaluz y las vanguardias de principios del siglo XX. Dirigió la compañía de teatro La Barraca y escribió obras dramáticas fundamentales. Posiblemente sea el poeta y dramaturgo de mayor relevancia, influencia y popularidad de la literatura en lengua castellana.