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(0)Federico García Lorca
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Garcia Lorca's position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three tragedies. Here, with an introduction by the dramatist's brother, Francisco Garcia Lorca, are five of his "comedies," in the authorized translations, extensively revised to reflect recent Lorca scholarship and to convey the sparkle, freshness, and magic of the original Spanish. "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife"...
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The work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet, has long been admired for its emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance. Few poets take us more directly and memorably to what Lorca described as "the dark root of the scream", the terrain of the duende, where inspiration delivers a new poetic reality and "intelligence" discovers its limitations. For many years, until the recent publication of FSG's Collected Poems, English readers'...
15) Blood wedding
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A lyrical play of longing and revenge that tells a story of a couple drawn together in the face of an arranged marriage.
17) Diva
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Not just a poet, the talented Campo is also a physician associated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Harvard Medical School, the son of Cubans who fled Castro's regime, and a gay man whose works have won not just the National Poetry Series Award but two Lambda Literary Awards.
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"Sebastian's Arrows is an intelligent selection and translation of letters, texts (some previously unpublished), and images, including an introduction and notes, by Christopher Maurer, giving the general reader, student, and scholar insight into the lives of two exceptional artists." "Written between 1925 and 1936, the letters tell of a friendship that began in the Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, where the two waged war against cultural "putrefaction"...