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"Poema del cante jondo and Romancero Gitano, the books of poems that Lorca wrote first, out of his excited response to gypsy music, poetry, and dance all around him in Granada, contain some of his most powerful and trenchant lyrical work, original, inimitable, daring, and a clear expression of the duende, the Dionysian daemon in poetry, of which he wrote eloquently. A new, fresh, consistent translation-and Mr. Angel's is all of these-is a welcome return to that wild dance, in this bilingual edition."-W.S. Merwin B An incantatory translation that is every bit as revolutionary as the original, written by Lorca in 1921 during the Franco regime in Spain.
About the author
Lorca (1898 - 1936) was a poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was murdered by Nationalist partisans at the age of 38 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Today he is recognized as one of the great artists of modern Spain. Angel is the author of four poetry books: Anxious Latitudes; Neither World, which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award; Twice Removed; and Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006. He teaches at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College. Originally from Seattle, he lives in Los Angeles.
Summary
A brilliant translation updating Lorca's Andalusian classic, Poema del cante jondo.
Foreword
*Total season's marketing budget of $18,000; individual book budget of $3,000 *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database and to Angel's personal contacts *2,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, libraries, and Angel's personal contacts *Bilingual press releases and mailings focused on Spanish-language bookstores, periodicals, and art organizations *Special initiative to generate interest among those interested in translation work *Comprehensive online study guides to reach academic market and garner course adoptions *Use of list serves, blogs, and e-mail networking to reach Lorca's vast and widespread base of fans through the Internet *Double publicity with simultaneous publication of Angel's collected poems * Author tour: Berkeley, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Pasadena, CA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Santa Cruz, CA; Washington, DC; Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Iowa City, IA; Baton Rouge, LA; Amherst, MA; Boston, MA; Cambridge, MA; Provincetown, MA; Ann Arbor, MI; Detroit MI; Kalamazoo, MI; Minneapolis, MN; Oxford, MS; Las Vegas, NV; New York, NY; Wilmington, NC; Oxford, OH; Portland, OR; Philadelphia, PA; Chattanooga, TN; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; San Antonio, TX; Salt Lake City, UT; Montpelier, VT; Charlottesville, VA; Seattle, WA
