Selections from the anthology Verde Que Te Quiero Verde: Pomes After Federcio Garcia Lorca

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NATALIE PEETERSE   Preface

“I asked these poets, ‘How does Lorca’s voice speak to you?’ And they answered. Included in this anthology are poems from all kinds of poets. The beautiful thread is that they all love Lorca and connect with him passionately. I could not believe how many poets answered this call with an immediate ‘Yes.’ It is because of the power this poet has over space and time. It is because poetry never sleeps.”

MILES WAGGENER   Becoming Lorca: A Biography

“One night, you will meet Hart Crane over whiskeys in a Brooklyn apartment full of sailors. Conflicting forces, enchantment, repulsion, and horror will stir inside you. You will start writing a series of poems Poeta en Nueva York, which will contain such poems as ‘Ode to Walt Whitman’ and ‘Landscape of a Vomiting Multitude.’ Like so much of your work, it will not appear in print in your brief lifetime. Are you sure you want to be Federico García Lorca?”

CLAIRE HIBBS   After Suicide, After Lorca, After Fires, After Night
EDUARDO CHIRINOS   Balada de las Tres Ninfas (Ballad of the Three Nymphs)
HEATHER CAHOON   Red Osier Spiders
MILES WAGGENER   Lorquiana
AMY RATTO PARKS   The Song We Say We Do Not Sing
NATALIE PEETERSE   Guerras Civiles / Civil Wars

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