This selection has been the introduction for generations of American
readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1937).
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 all,
Lorca's poems are admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major
influences -- Spanish folk traditions of his native Andalusia and
Granada, gypsy ballads, and surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel --
stream throughout Lorca's work.