Lorca is one of my favorites.He really can cast a magical spell on us! And the moon comes back again and again in his lines! What a bliss he offers the reader!
A real artist - and I wish more of his works were available on this site - with or without translation.
Garcia Lorca spoke for poetic and human liberty - but opponents of human liberty might have murdered him in any age, including our own.
I'm serious - Falangism is a state of mind, in which all artists are at risk.
Ballad of the Moon
translated by Will Kirkland
The moon came into the forge in her bustle of flowering nard. The little boy stares at her, stares. The boy is staring hard. In the shaken air the moon moves her amrs, and shows lubricious and pure,
For the most unforgettable and exquisite verse by the great Lorca you can't go past 'Sonnet', published here in Spanish as 'Soneto'.
Lorca is one of my favorites.He really can cast a magical spell on us! And the moon comes back again and again in his lines! What a bliss he offers the reader!
A real artist - and I wish more of his works were available on this site - with or without translation.
Garcia Lorca spoke for poetic and human liberty - but opponents of human liberty might have murdered him in any age, including our own.
I'm serious - Falangism is a state of mind, in which all artists are at risk.