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Poem of the Deep Song
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Description for Poem of the Deep Song
Paperback. Translator(s): Bauer, Carlos; Bauer, C. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 199.
The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and siguiriyas, Lorca captures the passionate flamenco cosmos of Andalusia's Gypsies, "those mysterious wandering folk who gave deep song its definitive form." Cante jondo, deep song, comes from a musical tradition that developed among peoples who fled into the mountains in the 15th century to escape the Spanish Inquisition. With roots in Arabic instruments, Sephardic ritual, Byzantine ... Read more
The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and siguiriyas, Lorca captures the passionate flamenco cosmos of Andalusia's Gypsies, "those mysterious wandering folk who gave deep song its definitive form." Cante jondo, deep song, comes from a musical tradition that developed among peoples who fled into the mountains in the 15th century to escape the Spanish Inquisition. With roots in Arabic instruments, Sephardic ritual, Byzantine ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Language
Spanish
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872862050
SKU
V9780872862050
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About Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) was a poet, playwright and theater director. He was well-known as a member of the Generation of '27 who introduced symbolism, futurism and surrealism to Spanish literature. City Lights Publishers also published another book of poetry by Federico García Lorca titled Ode to Walt Whitman. Carlos Baur is the translator of García Lorca's The Public ... Read more
Reviews for Poem of the Deep Song
"Lorca was a minstrel, and he understood poetry as an oral expression. . . . In Poem of the Deep Song, Lorca did not try to imitate the lyrics or music of cante jondo, but he did, I think, rely on its compás in order to craft poems that would enact the experience of the solitary anguish that is cante ... Read more