The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Federico Garcia Lorca was a poet with deep set eyes and a hood of thick eyebrows. When pressed together, his lips resembled two curved shells. He was a diminutive man who walked with a limp. His hands were delicate and...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Dear Poetry Aficionados, IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags The blog posts of the Poetry & Poets in Rags links for this week begin with five black and white photos in a row. The reason? It is the week of unearthing. Federico Garcia Lorca's body is about to be exhumed, if he's where they think he is, where a stone plinth is near a lone olive tree. In Australia, they are relooking at Breaker Morant's...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
known locally as "Manolo the Communist", who as a teenager was forced to dig graves for the fascist death squads in Spain's southern Granada province. Manolo took the Irish-born historian--along with three others--to the exact place where he recalled burying [Federico Garcia] Lorca. A stone plinth close to a lone olive tree marks the spot--and it is here that the archaeologists will dig....
Avoiding the Muse (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
"My life as a New York Poet begins at age 26, in seminar rooms near Washington Square, reciting first drafts with sober incantation. Star Teacher #1 orders us to read Poet in New York. I do. “New York has given me the knock-out punch,” Federico García Lorca writes back to his family in Spain in 1929. I share classes with a Troubled South African Poet of Indian Descent, who ululates...
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
The Good Night and Good Morning of Federico Garcia Lorca He knew he was asleep and was dreaming Of a beautiful poem. It seemed to be singing Itself in the night, and he woke In a bed in a room...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
... Finally! The end of Federico García Lorca's horrifying saga . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
T.Sky Reviews & Interviews (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
Archicembalo G.C. Waldrep ISBN 9781932195743 Tupelo Press, 2009 $16.95 Reviewed by Gretchen E. Henderson “Any performance is provisional,” writes G.C. Waldrep in the opening poem of Archicembalo (winner of the Dorset Prize), as the case may be with a bronchial-rasped voice, a viola’s snapped string, echoes of variant sound chambers. Provisional, in the sense of dependence: on architecture,...
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