Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition

A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work

And I who was walking with the earth at my waist,

saw two snowy eagles and a naked girl.

The one was the other and the girl was neither.

-from "Qasida of the Dark Doves"

Federico García Lorca was the most beloved poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. His work has long been admired for its passionate urgency and haunting evocation of sorrow and loss. Perhaps more persistently than...