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Product Reviews:
Poet in New York: A Bilingual Edition |
Rating: 1 (out of 5)
Summary: Translators too desperate to make Lorca comprehensible
Comments: Fredrico Garcia Lorca did no wrong with Poet in New York, it is the translators who do him wrong in this edition. Desperate to make Lorca's abstract and haunting images accessible, Simon and White lose the poetic element in Lorca's writing. Not to mention the translation is not even literal. (i.e. "Carne" is translated "skin" instead of "flesh," or "meat." "Asesinado" is translated "cut down" instead of "murdered.") So what we end up with is a vain attempt to make Lorca more easily understood--a task which insults the intelligence of the reader and the creativity of the poet--which in turn results in a loose translation that reads too much like prose with line breaks. If you are looking to purchase Poet in New York, do yourself a favor and purchase the Medina and Statman translation. It is much truer to the spirit of the original, as well as the language. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Nightmare in New York
Comments: Lorca had a pessimistic and dark impression of the New York during the Great Depression years. Lorca describes a city populated by ghosts and nightmares. This is1of the almost all shocking poetic works of the XX century.
I endorse the CD 'Omega'. It is an experimental 'flamenco' work by the `can notaor' Enrique Morente, based on the poems of `Poet in New York'. This music album will help you to go deeper into the book. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Lorca: A True Definition of a Poet
Comments: After reading "Poeta en Nueva York" I found out that it was really worth learning spanish. I am not exaggerating however some of Lorca's verses make me cry. They have so much emotion and fantasy in them, and they talk about experiences that take place deep inside me. The poems are surrealist however that is also what makes them amazing. The best poem is probably "Fabula y Rueda de Los Tres Amigos" where Lorca beautifully conveys his feelings towards his relationships with others and the struggle he sees within them. Strangely enough at the end of the poem he describes a lot of events concerning his death which actually coincided with his murder a few years later. Lorca's relation with the moon reflected through his simple yet overwhelming words is also charming and inspiring. I discovered through them that there was a lot more in that celestial body orbiting the earth than what I used to see before. You will feel that poetry is just flowing out of Federico. He did not to exert a lot of effort to sound that marvellous and that right. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: powerful and chilling account....
Comments: After reading "A Poet in New York," I can say this much:
"I do not think I am planning a trip to New York soon." Lorca's account of the city was so visceral, raw and cruel, I could feel the hauntingly dead interactions between people, and those people's relationships to the material world around them. The accounts of violence in the streets are equally as cold and boldly unapologetic as his observations of the early morning hours when the city is 1st waking up.
Gabriel Garcia Lorca honestly shows that when it comes to the movements as a city with ties to industry, capitalistic gain and material wealth, there is no division between the life of the human being and the life of the machine. There is alalmost all an automated, "conveyor belt" feeling to the mechanical movement of life in the city. As soon as energy is poured into an endeavor, it is also poured out just as easily. People are as disposable as sheet metal. Their blood, their organs and their instruments of movement could be ripped away and demolished as quickly and non-emotionally as1would destroy the framework of a building and it would be of no concern to anyone else.
I believe that Lorca's observations and journal entries are a reflection of not only the mindset of1of the almost all well known cities in the world, applicable to the 1930s, however is also quite accurately a reflection of the state of the world today. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: One of the almost all complex and rich books of Lorca
Comments: Federico García Lorca is among the almost all celebrated Spanish poets of all time. The beauty of his writing has given him a place in the gallery of the best Spanish writers. This book he wrote when he was a student at Columbia University relies on the influence he got from the surrealistic movements that were running on Europe at the time. Thus, it gets far from the poetic language used in his other books, almost all notably in Romancero Gitano: verses leave the regularity of the romance to explore new and rich arrangements; the metaphors grow more complex and ellaborate, making a delicious challenge to the reader;1can read a poem time and again for days and will still be unsure of its real meaning. Besides this some of the poems reach a new height on Lorca's poetry. To anybody just seeking to discover Lorca and his world, Romancero Gitano seems to be a best approach in my oppinion, however if you know it and like it, I can not help endorseing Poet in New York as a new horizon to discover. If your approach to this book is open-minded, you will not be disappointed. |
