Poet in New York

Name: Poet in New York
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ISBN: 9780802143532

ISBN-10: 0802143539

ISBN-13: 9780802143532

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Authors: Frederico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Medina, Mark Statman, Edward Hirsch

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Newly translated for the first time in ten years, Federico Garcia Lorca's Poet in New York is an astonishing depiction of a tumultuous metropolis that changed the course of poetic expression in both Spain and the Americas. Written during Federico Garcia Lorca's nine months as a student at Columbia University at the beginning of the Great Depression, Poet in New York is widely considered one of the most important books Lorca ever produced. This enduring and influential collection offers us a New York City populated with poverty, racism, social turbulence, and solitude--a New York intoxicating in its vitality and devastating beauty. After the tragedy of September 11, 2001, poets Pablo Medina…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Foreword




Poems of Solitude at Columbia University


Back from a Walk


1910 (Interlude)


Fable and Round of the Three Friends


Your Infancy in Menton



The Blacks


Norm and Paradise of the Blacks


The King of Harlem


Abandoned Church (Ballad of the Great War)



Streets and Dreams


Dance of Death


Landscape of the Vomiting Crowd (Twilight at Coney Island)


Landscape of the Urinating Crowd (Nocturne of Battery Place)


Murder (Two Voices at Dawn on Riverside Drive)


Christmas on the Hudson


City Without Sleep (Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge)


Blind Panorama of New York


Birth of Christ


Dawn



Poems of Lake Eden Mills


Double Poem of Lake Eden


Living Sky



In the Farmer's Cabin (Newburgh Countryside)


The Boy Stanton


Cow


Girl Drowned in the Well (Granada and Newburgh)



Introduction to Death: Poems of Solitude in Vermont


Death


Nocturne of the Hole


Landscape with Two Tombs and an Assyrian Dog


Ruin


Moon and Panorama of the Insects (Love Poem)



Return to the City


New York (Office and Denunciation)


Jewish Cemetery


Small Infinite Poem


Crucifixion



Two Odes


Cry Toward Rome: (From the Tower of the Chrysler Building)


Ode to Walt Whitman



Flight from New York: Two Waltzes Toward Civilization


Small Viennese Waltz


Waltz in the Branches



The Poet Arrives in Havana


Son of Blacks in Cuba