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Federico García Lorca

I am the Enormous Shadow of my Tears...

About Me

.. I am a poor, impassioned and silent fellow who, very nearly like the marvelous Verlaine, bears within a lily impossible to water, and to the foolish eyes of those who look upon me I seem to be a very red rose with the sexual tint of an April peony, which is not my heart's truth...My image and my verses give the impression of something ver passionate...and yet, at the bottom of my soul, there's an enormous desire to be very childlike, very poor, very hidden. I see before me many problems, many entrapping eyes, many conflicts in the battle between head and heart and all my sentimental flowering seeks to enter a golden garden and I try hard because I like paper dolls and the playthings of childhood, and at times I lie down on my back on the floor to play with my kid sister (she's my delight)...but the phantom that lives within us and hates us pushes me down the path...with each day that passes I have another doubt and another sadness. Sadness of the enigma of myself! .contactTable .text,

My Interests

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The way i was received by the workers was extremely moving. It seemed so true, this contact with the real people. I was so moved I had a lump in my throat and could hardly speak...When I read "Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard," the whole theater rose to its feet and shouted, "Long live the poet of the people!" And then I had to undergo more than an hour and a half of people standing in line to shake my hand: artisans, old workers, mechanics, children, students. It was the lovliest act I have ever experienced in my life.

Music:


Pensamiento Poético by Federico dated 29 January 1916

Movies:

Short plays El paseo de Buster Keaton ("Buster Keaton goes for a stroll", 1928) La doncella, el marinero y el estudiante ("The Maiden, the Sailor and the Student", 1928) Quimera ("Dream", 1928)[edit] Filmscripts Viaje a la luna ("Trip to the Moon", 1929)

Television:

Theatre El maleficio de la mariposa ("The Curse of the Butterfly": written 1919-20, first production 1920) Mariana Pineda (written 1923-25, first production 1927) La zapatera prodigiosa ("The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife": written 1926-30, first production 1930, revised 1933) Amor de Don Perlimpín con Belisa en su jardín ("Love of Don Perlimpín with Belisa in the garden": written 1928, first production 1933) Bodas de sangre ("Blood Wedding": written 1932, first production 1933) Yerma (written 1934, first production 1934) Doña Rosita la soltera ("Doña Rosita the Spinster": written 1935, first production 1935) Retablillo de Don Cristóbal ("The Puppet-Play of Don Cristóbal": written 1931, first production 1935) Los títeres de Cachiporra ("The Billy-Club Puppets": written 1928, first production 1937) Así que pasen cinco años ("When Five Years Pass": written 1931, first production 1945) La casa de Bernarda Alba ("The House of Bernarda Alba": written 1936, first production 1945) El público ("The Public": written 1930-1936, first production 1972) Comedia sin título ("Untitled Comedy": written 1936, first production 1986

Books:

Poetry Impresiones y paisajes ("Impressions and Landscapes", 1918) Libro de poemas ("Book of Poems", 1921) Oda a Salvador Dalí (Ode to Salvador Dalí, 1926) Canciones ("Songs", 1927) Primer romancero gitano ("Gypsy Ballads", 1928) Poeta en Nueva York (1930, published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as "A Poet in New York", 1988) Poema del cante jondo ("Poem of Deep Song", 1931) Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías ("Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías", 1935) Seis poemas galegos ("Six Galician poems", 1935) Diván del Tamarit ("The Diván of Tamarit", 1936, published posthumously in 1941) Sonetos del amor oscuro ("Sonnets of Dark Love", 1936) Primeras canciones ("First Songs", 1936

Heroes:

You mustn't content yourself with the admiration of a few. That isn't enough. Many people must know of you-everyone...But you should give everything the time it requires, no more, so that you aren't, for example waiting for Tagore to arrive and neglecting your own things...As for your friends, I beg you not to lose more time with them than you need to to rest.

My Blog

Canzón de cuna pra Rosalía Castro, morta

Canzón de cuna pra Rosalía Castro, morta ¡Érguete, miña amiga,que xa cantan os galos do día! ¡Érguete, miña amaga,porque o vento muxe coma uncha vaca! Os arados van e véndende Santiago a Belén.Dende B...
Posted by Federico García Lorca on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:35:00 PST

Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint

Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint   Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.   I am afraid o...
Posted by Federico García Lorca on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:39:00 PST

The Faithless Wife

The Faithless WifeSo I took her to the riverbelieving she was a maiden,but she already had a husband.It was on St. James nightand almost as if I was obliged to.The lanterns went outand the crickets li...
Posted by Federico García Lorca on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:34:00 PST

Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias 1. Cogida and death At five in the afternoon.It was exactly five in the afternoon.A boy brought the white sheetat five in the afternoon.A frail of lime ready prepare...
Posted by Federico García Lorca on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:32:00 PST

Cross

Cruz         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;  &nbs...
Posted by Federico García Lorca on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:26:00 PST