title: Selected Verse: A Bilingual Edition (Federico Garcia Lorca Poems)
author:  Federico Garcia Lorca 
description: Poet, playwright and composer Lorca (1898-1936), who was murdered by Franco's soldiers, is widely held to be Spain's greatest modern poet. This bilingual volume of poems, the most complete anthology ever to appear in English, features translations by many outstanding poet/translators: Francisco Aragon, Catherine Brown, Cola Franzen, Will Kirkland, William Bryant Logan, Christopher Maurer, Jerome Rothenberg, Greg Simon, Alan S. Trueblood, John K. Walsh and Steven F. White. Featuring poetry drawn from every book of poems Lorca published during his lifetime as well as from his uncollected work, this authoritative edition displays Lorca's extraordinary range and power, documents his aesthetic and technical evolution and reestablishes him as a consummate poet of desire, drama and death. From the lighter, at times whimsical, verse in "Suites and Songs" to the many elegies and laments he wrote, Lorca's singular voice, fiercely emotional and imagistically brilliant, shines through in all its vivid intelligence. <br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  >  _For Sara and Mark_
  
  >  _I’m hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening,
  > the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of
  > lambs, the she-dogs too; until it seems that the whole countryside rises to
  > show me its tender sleeping young, while I feel two hammer-blows here,
  > instead of the mouth of my child._
  
  —Federico García Lorca, _Yerma_ (1934)
  
  >  _Translated by James Graham-Lujan and