Lorca's poetry has long been admired for tis emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance.
This bilingual edition provides authoritative versions by distinguished poets and traslators, and is the most complete paperback anthology available in English, drawing on every book of poems published by Lorca, and on his uncollected works. His poetic range is remarkable, from the playful Suites and highly stylized gyspy Ballads, to his own dark vision of urban modernity, Poet in New York, and his intense meditation on death,