Overview

This volume offers a fresh translation of a generous selection of Lorca’s suites, a body of work that Federico García Lorca left largely unpublished upon his death in 1936.  Composed between 1920 to 1923, these poems are closest in spirit and technique to Lorca’s Songs (1927) and his Poem of the Deep Song (1931). In 1926 the poet suggested they could be released together to form a ‘boxed set’, yet this plan, like other earlier efforts, fell through.  Lorca’s suites reveal a poet who is interested in creating a modern style founded on popular oral lyric and fragmented narrative. But they also show a poet who explores his heart and his sexual orientation, and who may have hesitated too long about publication. Lorca achieved the fullest expression of a personal yearning in his long poem In the Garden of the Lunar Grapefruits.  Out of an impossible contradiction between self-discovery and wariness of disclosure rises the blue world of the ideal—a timeless world that all readers of Lorca will want to take into account, inasmuch as it forms a counterpoint to the rest of his work.

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Author:   Roberta Ann Quance
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
ISBN:  

9781786941077

ISBN 10:   1786941074
Pages:   484
Publication Date:   10 May 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Blue River/Río azul 2) Night/Noche 3) Mirror Suite/Suite de los espejos 4) Garden of the Dark-Haired Girls/Jardín de las morenas 5) Capriccios/Capriccios 6) Moments of Song/Momentos de canción 7) Palimpsests 8) Songs Beneath the Moon/Canciones bajo la luna 9) Pictures of the Sea/Estampas del mar 10) Three Prints of the Heavens/Tres estampas del cielo 11) Fairs/Ferias 12) Shadow/Sombra 13) Four Yellow Ballads/Cuatro baladas amarillentas 14) Pools in the Stream/Remansos 15) Summer Hours/Horas de verano 16) The Return/El regreso 17) Secrets/Secretos 18) White Album/Album blanco 19) The Forest of Clocks/La selva de los relojes 20) Cross/Cruz 21) Water Suite/Suite del agua 22) Three Twilights/Tres crepúsculos 23) Countries/Países 24) Little Stories of the Wind/Historietas del viento 25) Riverside Reveries/Ensueños del río 26) Madrigals/Madrigales 27) Castle of Fireworks/Castillo de fuegos artificiales 28) Water Jets/Surtidores 29) Herbals/Herbarios 30) Snail/Caracol 31) In the Wood of the Lunar Grapefruits/En el bosque de las toronjas de luna 32) In the Garden of the Lunar Grapefruits/En el jardín de las toronjas de luna APPENDIX NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reviews

'Federico Garcia Lorca, Selected Suites is a valuable contribution to the bibliography on the poet and offers both the specialist and the general reader of poetry the opportunity to access these little-known poems [...] The high quality of these translations stems from Quance's extensive knowledge about Lorca's poems, and the personal, literary, and cultural context in which they were written.' W. Michael Mudrovic, Anales de la Literatura Espanola Contemporanea (ALEC)

Author Information

Born in Canandaigua, New York, Roberta Quance was awarded a PhD in Spanish in 1982 from Cornell University. She has written for both scholarly and general audiences in Europe and the United States. She has lectured at the University of Utrecht, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Queen’s University Belfast and currently resides in Madrid.

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