Name: Blood Wedding and Yerma
ISBN: 9781559360807

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Why This Clicks

Lyric Tragedy

Two stark dramas meet the rhythmic force and imagery of poets Langston Hughes and W.S. Merwin.

Come here for

Impassioned language sharpened by poetic translation
A meeting of Spanish drama and two distinct poetic voices

Expect

Tragic narratives told with urgency and fervor
The contrasting styles of Hughes and Merwin

Book Details

Authors: Federico Garcia Lorca
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Published: May 1, 1994
Format: Paperback
Theme: Iberian Lit Crit · Hispanic American Lit Crit
Reading lane: Iberian Lit Crit

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Plays
Caribbean & Latin American Criticism

About This Book

One of Spain's greatest poets and dramatists, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote in many styles but achieved maturity and fame with his peasant plays, Blood Wedding and Yerma , in which impassioned language and imagery accentuate tragic narratives. These never-before published translations unite Garcia Lorca's masterpieces with two of America's most gifted poets, Langston Hughes and W.S. Merwin. The epigrammatic style and unsentimental lyricism of W.S. Merwin heighten the urgency a...

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One of Spain's greatest poets and dramatists, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote in many styles but achieved maturity and fame with his peasant plays, Blood Wedding and Yerma , in which impassioned language and imagery accentuate tragic narratives. These never-before published translations unite Garcia Lorca's masterpieces with two of America's most gifted poets, Langston Hughes and W.S. Merwin. The epigrammatic style and unsentimental lyricism of W.S. Merwin heighten the urgency and fervor of Yerma , the story of a woman whose thwarted yearning for a child makes her murder her indifferent husband. Preeminent African-American poet Langston Hughes infuses his version of Blood Wedding --the story of an unwilling bride who elopes with her lover on her wedding night--with the rhythmic intensity and linguistic beauty only a fellow poet could achieve.