Word: lorca
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...Five in the Afternoon (the title is from a Federico Garc?a Lorca poem about the death of a bullfighter) is set after the Taliban's fall, when women have won the right to schooling but many men aren't happy about it. A young woman, Noqreh (Agheleh Reza?e), has heard the siren call of modernity?women of Afghanistan, throw off your burqas and slip into that darling pair of white shoes you've been hiding! Noqreh does just that after her theologically strict father drops her off at school...
...mentioned a lot of writers in the book, that I read when I was younger, from James Baldwin to Jean Genet. They all had an influence on me; I think Lorca had the biggest influence. Dostoyevsky had a tremendous influence on me. When I was growing up, we didn’t read female writers, they weren’t in print, including Virginia Woolf, including anyone that you might take for granted and read today. We didn’t have them to read. I think the only woman writer that I read in high school was George Eliot...
...Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens. I had just started college at San Jose State, and I went to a poetry reading by Robert Bly. Toward the end, just when I was so bored I thought I was going to shoot my brains out, he started reading these García-Lorca translations, and all of the sudden I perked up. So I went out and bought several García-Lorca books. Later I discovered Gertrude Stein and read her a great deal. Then it was the Black Mountain Poets: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan. And finally, the New York...
Imagine a Mexican-American TV soap opera written with Federico Garcia Lorca's dramatic intensity and passion for female characters but produced with the randy exuberance of a soft-core-porn video. Then spread it all across the gritty black-and-white panels of a comic book. What you would get is Love and Rockets, the comics series created by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, known to the comixcenti as Los Bros. Hernandez...
...study under the Jesuits, who, he revealed to one interviewer, would attempt to channel young boys' sexual urges by encouraging them to masturbate to a statue of the Blessed Mother. Years later, while living at a now-famed students' residence in Madrid (where he first encountered Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali), Buñuel took his childhood game a step further by wandering the streets dressed as a priest...