Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist,
was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the
outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was by then an immensely
popular figure, celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world,
and at the height of his creative powers. After his death, with his
work suppressed, he became a potent symbol of the martyrdom of
Spain. The manuscript of Lorca's last poems, his tormented Sonnets
of Dark Love, disappeared during the Civil War. For fifty years the
poems lived only in the words of the poets who had heard Lorca read
them, like Neruda and Aleixandre, who remembered them as 'a pure
and ardent monument to love in which the prime material is now the
poet's flesh, his heart, his soul wide open to his own
destruction'. Lorca's lost sonnets were re-discovered in Spain
during the 1980s, and this was the first book to include English
translations of these brooding poems. Merryn Williams' edition
draws on the full range of Lorca's poetry, from the early poems and
the gypsy ballads to the agitated Poet in New York sequence and the
Arab-influenced gacelas and casidas which followed his American
exile. It includes the Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, Lorca's
great elegy for his bullfighter friend, as well as the full text of
his famous lecture on the duende, the daemon of Spanish music,
song, dance, poetry and art. In these remarkable translations,
Lorca's elemental poems are reborn in English, with their stark
images of blood and moon, of water and earth; of bulls, horses and
fish; olives, sun and oranges; knives and snow; darkness and death.
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