The Poetics of Apocalypse: Federico Garcia Lorca's Poet in New York
In June of 1929, Federico Garcia Lorca left his native Spain on a journey that would become a vision-quest through New York City, the Vermont countryside, and Cuba. While he failed miserably at learning English during his brief sojourn at Columbia University, he nonetheless created a powerful new poetic idiom to voice his perceptions of social injustice and apocalyptic retribution. Guided by the duende, liminal principle of creativity and death, Lorca represents New York as dystopia cum...
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Nandorfy (Brock U., St. Catharines, Canada) characterizes Spanish poet and playwright Lorca's (1898-1936) poem as an invitation to death, and finds in it a convergence of desires for social revolution and to revolutionize poetic discourse by pushing language beyond its limits. His trip to American, she explains, was in the midst of a three-fold personal crisis. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
List of Illustrations9Acknowledgments11Introduction151From Silence to Prophecy to Silence332The Spatialization of Time and the Objects of Desire733Apocalypse: Social Revolution and Spiritual Renewal in the Void1054Sacrifice and Self-Effacement1645The End of Words: Dancing and Drawing with the Duende209Afterword265Notes275Bibliography302Index308
