![]() And beyond that, the poetry is rooted perfectly in the soul of Andalucía. Those themes are what call me back into Lorca’s poetry every so often. ![]() In its most fundamental perspective, Lorca’s poetry deals with the universal themes of love, death and alienation. ![]() It was from Professor Alonso, himself a poet, that I gained a deeper understanding of Lorca and of Lorca’s works. Both, also, were part of the group known as the Generation of ’27-a number of poets linked by their explorations with the avant-garde. Professor Alonso had known Lorca as a friend and colleague starting in their youth when both were students at the progressive Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. My first exposure to it was in the late 1960’s in Madrid where I audited a course on García Lorca’s poetry and theatre taught by Damaso Alonso. This is not my first reading of “Poema del cante jondo”. I do not, as a rule, venture beyond a handful that I encountered among the well known and even then, they lie fallow for years, remembered only in brief reflection and not in a re-reading.Īnd about Lorca’s works-his poetry and his theatre-I am enthusiastic. I have a few poets whom I have read off and on. It is not a genre that I turn to with preference.
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