European Poetry

Lorca and Jimenez: Selected Poems

Name: Lorca and Jimenez: Selected Poems
Author: Robert Bly
ISBN: 9780807062135

by Robert Bly (Editor), Federico Garcia Lorca, Juan R. Jimenez

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Overview

A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions and powerful English translations on facing pages. In a new preface, editor and translator Robert Bly explores what the poems reveal today about politics, the spirit, and the purpose of art.

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About the Author, Robert Bly

Robert Bly has earned many honors for his original poems, which include The Winged Energy of Delight, and for his translations of twenty-two poets, including Kabir. He is the author of the bestseller Iron John, and with Jane Hirshfield has published a new translation of Mirabai (Beacon / 6386-6 / $16.00).