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 is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. Christopher Maurer, a leading Lorca scholar and editor, has substantially revised FSG's earlier edition of the collected poems of this charismatic and complicated figure, who--as Maurer says in his illuminating Introduction--""spoke unforgettably of all that most interests us: the otherness of nature, the demons of personal identity and artistic creation, sex, childhood, and death.""

""[The translations are] both ingenious and accurate, setting a very high standard for translation of verse from Spanish."" --Michael Wood, The New York Review of Books