Tag: Federico Garcia Lorca
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* mirroring & anthilling with garcía lorca
This week’s poem is a translation of a short lyric from Federico García Lorca’s Suite de los Espejos (Suite of the Mirrors). Reading through the suites, I was impressed again and again by García Lorca’s facility to estrange us from the everyday world, only to bring us back. His lyrics are infused with a purposeful sense of…
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* Francisco X. Alarcón: poem & review
Happy to share my latest review for the Volta Blog: a meditation on Francisco X. Alarcón’s latest collection, Canto Hondo. In my review, I discuss Alarcón’s engagement with Federico García Lorca’s ideas on cante jondo (deep song). Alarcón delves into García Lorca’s homage to his Andalusian influences to create his own deep song tempered by his own distinct poetic line, a line…
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* some origins, manu chao & the friday influence
In regards to the question “When did you start writing?” I give several answers depending on context. If it’s a professional context, I say seventeen, that being the year that I first typed up, printed, and sent off poems to a real lit mag. I call it the year I began to take my writing…
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* thistleburrs & the friday influence
Song of the Barren Orange Tree – Federico Garcia Lorca * Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of seeing myself without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? The day walks in circles around me, and the night copies me in all its stars. I want to live…
The Friday Influence 