A Season in Granada
A Season in Granada' brings together poems, essays and excerpts from letters by the great twentieth-century poet Federico García Lorca, including two sequences of poems and an essay previously unpublished in English. The writings form a dazzling, elegiac celebration of the city of Granada, where Lorca grew up, where he studied, and to which he returned frequently in his life and in his imagination. And where he would die.\ In Christopher Maurer's words, the twenty poems in the two Suites,...
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Poems, essays and letters of the great twentieth-century Spanish poet.Gabrielle ShawOne gets a glimpse of a Lorca at peace in these poems. . . This gathering of words by the martyred poet, writer, artist and composer, is an opportunity to continue to discover and pay homage to a truly valiant figure of this century. -- ForeWord Magazine
Preface9Poem of the Fair13Summer Hours29Palimpsests37Little Tales of the Wind45Water Jets51Meditations and Allegories of the Water57Daydreams of a River60Granada: Paradise Closed to Many63August...71Evening72Ballad of the Three Rivers73Tree, tree, /dry and green...75St. Michael (Granada)77Sleepwalking Ballad80Holy Week in Granada85Casida of One Wounded by Water91Casida of the Boughs92Ghazal of the Love which Hides from Sight93Ghazal of the Dead Child94Ghazal of the Morning Market Place95How a City Sings from November to November97Notes116Music: El Cafe de Chinitas126Music: Las tres hojas128
\ Gabrielle ShawOne gets a glimpse of a Lorca at peace in these poems. . . This gathering of words by the martyred poet, writer, artist and composer, is an opportunity to continue to discover and pay homage to a truly valiant figure of this century. -- ForeWord Magazine\ \
