Word: lorca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manages to trap the solar energy of his landscape; the shadowy Indian existence is thrown against the brilliant screen of another reality that hovers, shimmers and then vanishes the way it came. Claremon is a bit of a necromancer himself, easily summoning up the spirits of B. Traven, Garcia Lorca and-unhappily -Ernest Hemingway. It is in echoing Papa's Spanish style that the novelist makes his largest error. For to use "for" on almost every page is to bring a monotony to a highly charged work. For an author does not render Mexican into English that...
Shocked by the brutality of the war, and traumatized by the death of his friend and fellow poet Federico Garcia Lorca, Neruda pruned from his own writing much of its detached symbolism. Instead, he began to turn out blunt, vertiginous, often satirical verse-poetry that Neruda once described as "written with blood...
GEORGE CRUMB: ANCIENT VOICES OF CHILDREN (Nonsuch). Poet García Lorca's grim imagery set to stark, subtly shimmering music by an important new American composer...
...other celebrities, dead or alive, include Eugene Ionesco, Nobel Poet Miguel Asturias, Federico García Lorca, Donald Barthelme, Willie Morris, R.F. Delderfield, Anne Sexton, Christina Rossetti, Ernest Gaines and Nathaniel Benchley. Some of their juvenile works are included below...
...prize-following his high school teacher, Chile's Gabriela Mistral (1945), and Guatemala's Miguel Angel Asturias (1967). Some feel that his immense output-by his own estimate, some 7,000 pages of poetry-is occasionally marred by obscurantisn and Marxist propaganda. But Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed during the Spanish Civil War, praised Neruda as "a real man who knows that the reed and the swallow are more immortal than the hard cheek of a statue...