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Poet in New York

work by García Lorca

Also known as: “Poeta en Nueva York”

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In Federico García Lorca: Later poetry and plays of Federico García Lorca
…en Nueva York (published 1940; Poet in New York), a series of poems whose dense, at times hallucinatory images, free-verse lines, and thematic preoccupation with urban decay and social injustice mark an audacious departure from Lorca’s previous work. The collection is redolent of Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, T.S. Eliot,…
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Spanish literature

In Spanish literature: The Generation of 1927
…Poeta en Nueva York (1940; Poet in New York), a Surrealist reflection of urban inhumanity and disorientation written during his visit to the United States in 1929–30. Salinas sought pure poetry through clearly focused poems and a heightened sensitivity to language. In La voz a ti debida (1934; “The Voice…
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