Cantes Flamencos (Flamenco Songs)

by Michael Smith (Translator), Luis Ingelmo (Translator)

Overview

More than 250 quatrains of love and loss, the texts to those inimitable flamenco performances - these are the songs that are wailed by those keening male voices, as the red-and-black-clad women dancers stamp, pirouette and fire castanet rhythms at machine-gun pace. Not high art certainly, but a part of deeper fabric of the real Spain, and a powerful influence on poets such Lorca.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848612105
Publisher:	Shearsman Books
Publication date:	02/15/2012
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Michael Farris Smith has been awarded the Transatlantic Review Award, Brick Streets Press Short Story Award, Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, and the Alabama Arts Council Fellowship Award for Literature. He is a graduate of Mississippi State and the Center for Writers at Southern Miss. He lives in Columbus, Mississippi, with his wife and two daughters.