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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

by Federico Garcia Lorca

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appears in Poetry, Poetry, and Fiction.

This selection has been the introduction for generations of American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (18981937). Lorca is admired the world over for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. Most of al...

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appears in Poetry, Poetry, and Fiction.

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