Federico García Lorca, Selected Suites Quance Paperback 9781786941084

Federico Garca Lorca, Selected SuitesAuthor(s): Roberta Ann Quance\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781786941084, 978-1786941084\nSynopsis\nThis volume offers a fresh translation of a generous selection of Lorcas suites, a body of work that Federico Garca Lorca left largely unpublished upon his death in 1936. Composed between 1920 to 1923, these poems are closest in spirit and technique to Lorcas Songs [tel] and his Poem of the Deep Song [tel]. In 1926 the poet suggested they could be released together to form a boxed set, yet this plan, like other earlier efforts, fell through. Lorcas 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 i.