Poet in New York - Federico Garcia Lorca (1930)

On Lorca’s Poet in New York - "What a strange, vital, careening book—what a book for now. Yet also, what a fascinating document of the early 20th century. A Poet in New York, 'New York in a Poet,’ as Lorca himself glossed it: this is clearly one of the great works of transnational modernism, a cracked Andalucían mirror held up to New York’s crazed, vibrant, and disgusting face. The best poetry is 'news that stays news,’ as Pound put it. This book seems to me news I can use—registering the skyscrapered canyons of the city, its savage underbelly everywhere humming with reptilian life (all those iguanas and crocodiles running around in the poems), the titanic fraudulence of Wall Street, the vomiting crowds of a Coney Island Sunday.”
FSG Work In Progress
Lorca: Introduction
Lorca in New York: A Celebration
NY Times: Poetic Love Affair With New York; For Garcia Lorca, the City Was a Spiritual Metaphor
Back Tomorrow. Federico García Lorca in New York
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Federico García Lorca, Young man and pyramids, 1929-1930

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