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Poem of the Deep Song/Poema Del Cante Jondo

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Poem of the Deep Song/Poema Del Cante Jondo
Federico Garcia Lorca
Manufacturer: City Lights Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0872862054

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The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and siguiriyas, Lorca captures the passionate flamenco cosmos of Andalusia's Gypsies, ""those mysterious wandering folk who gave deep song its definitive form.

Cante jondo, deep song, comes from a musical tradition that developed among peoples who fled into the mountains in the 15th century to escape the Spanish Inquisition. With roots in Arabic instruments, Sephardic ritual, Byzantine liturgy, native folk songs, and, above all, the rhythms of Gypsy life, deep song is characterized by intense and profound emotion.

Fearing that the priceless heritage of deep song might vanish from Spain, Lorca, along with Manuel de Falla and other young artists, hoped to preserve ""the artistic treasure of an entire race."" In Poem of the Deep Song, the poet's own lyric genius gives cante jondo a special kind of immortality.

Carlos Baur is the translator of Garcia Lorca's The Public and Play Without a Title: Two Posthumous Plays, and of Cries from a Wounded Madrid: Poetry of the Spanish Civil War. He has also translated the work of Henry Miller and other contemporary American writers into Spanish.

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What? No one has reviewed this delightful book?.......1998-10-09

Lorca has written both an essay on Deep Song and a book of Deep Song poetry - they should be read together.

While Lorca, Falla and others' theory of the origin of Deep Song in the gypsy tradition is now discounted, the sensitivity Lorca shows in trying to retain a traditional form is wonderful. [Current theory gives more influence to the original Andalusian, Saracen, and Shephardic influences which had already developed into Deep Song when the gypsies arrived].

In fact, one should also read some Arab-Andulsian poetry along with Deep Song. The poems of Deep Song are not Lorca's best but they are important for understanding Lorca's cultural sensibilities. The use of refrains, the use of a varient of the opening stanza as a closing stanza etc. are techniques that are clearly in the hands of a master although the poems were written early in his career.

Now, if I could only find out the meaning of certain repeating images such as yellow serpent.

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Evokes passion, vibrancy, and life
An important new translation of Lorca's Poem of the Deep Song

Poem of the Deep Song
Federico Garcia Lorca
Manufacturer: Sarabande Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1932511407

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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

Cante jondo. Deep Song. A poem meant to be sung, not with a pretty voice but with a cry, to break the silence and stillness of the body. A rustic form of flamenco. A poem written to remind Spain of its deep musical soul, the primitive song of the Andalusian Gypsies. A poem by Federico Garcia Lorca written in 1921 when he was only twenty-three and had but fifteen years left to live before the Franco regime murdered him in the hills of Granada.

Translator Ralph Angel returns to Lorca's strange, unique rhythms and to the irrational, intuitive duende. This incantatory translation, every bit as revolutionary as the original was almost a century before, reconfirms what Lorca said of this work, that it is "a slammer, a wavering emission of the voice . . . [that] makes the tightly closed flowers of the semitones blossom into a thousand petals."

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Evokes passion, vibrancy, and life.......2007-04-14

Poem of the Deep Song is a bilingual edition of the epic poem inspired by the music and culture of Andalusian Gypsies, penned by acclaimed Spanish artist and musician Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) and skillfully translated into English by award-winning poet Ralph Angel. Consisting of a diversity of impressions originally meant to be sung, not with overly mellifluous tone but rather in a deep, primal cry, Poem of the Deep Song evokes passion, vibrancy, and life undimmed by the turn of almost a century. "De Profundis": A hundred lovers / sleep forever / beneath this dry land. / Andalusia, / long, red-colored roads. / Cordoba, green olive trees, / where a hundred crosses / are placed in their memory. / A hundred lovers / sleep forever.

An important new translation of Lorca's Poem of the Deep Song.......2006-12-23

These translations capture the music and, dare I say, the duende of Poem of the Deep Song like no other translation. These poems are wonderful because Ralph Angel's ear and attention are superb. This will be the definitive English translations of one of Lorca's masterpiece.

WITH A DEEP SEA SMILE: A collection of stories, poems, riddles, finger plays , and songs ideal for use during story hour.

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WITH A DEEP SEA SMILE: A collection of stories, poems, riddles, finger plays , and songs ideal for use during story hour.
Virginia A. Tashjian
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ICQJ50

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Poem of the deep song =: Poema del cante Jondo
Federico Garcia Lorca
Manufacturer: City Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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