Blood Wedding & Yerma

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Federico Garcia Lorca

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“Mesmerizing and haunting…a lyrical translation.” –BroadwayWorld.com “Passionate, primal and poetic…beautifully translated by Langston Hughes.” –NOW Toronto “[Merwin’s] translation reveals this sensitivity, this sense of scale and musicality.” –Melia Benussen, Introduction One of Spain’s greatest poets and dramatists, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote in many styles but achieved maturity and fame with his peasant plays, Blood Wedding and Yerma, in which impassioned language and imagery accentuate tragic narratives. These never-before published translations unite Garcia Lorca’s masterpieces with two of America’s most gifted poets, Langston Hughes and W.S. Merwin. The epigrammatic style and unsentimental lyricism of W.S. Merwin heighten the urgency and fervor of Yerma, the story of a woman whose thwarted yearning for a child makes her murder her indifferent husband. Preeminent African-American poet Langston Hughes infuses his version of Blood Wedding—the story of an unwilling bride who elopes with her lover on her wedding night—with the rhythmic intensity and linguistic beauty only a fellow poet could achieve.

Author Biography:

Federico García Lorca also wrote The House of Bernarda Alba, among other works, before his tragic murder, at the age of thirty-eight, in the Spanish Civil War. A leader of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes produced more than sixty books of poetry, fiction and essays, as well as Broadway Plays, before he died in 1967 at the age of sixty-five. Born in New York City, Pulitzer Prize-winner, W.S. Merwin has lived in France, Spain, Portugal and Hawaii, and is the author of numerous volumes of verse, several major translations, and four plays.

Release date Australia

June 16th, 1994

Author

Federico Garcia Lorca

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Translated by Langston Hughes
Translated by W.S. Merwin

Pages

172

Dimensions

125x203x10

ISBN-13

9781559360807

Product ID

2302706

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