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.
He was well-known as a member of the Generation of \'27 who introduced symbolism, futurism, and surrealism to Spanish.
Rosenthal, New York Times Federico Garc a Lorca (1898-1936) was a poet, playwright, and theater director.
And like the tarantula it spins a large star to trap the sighs floating in its black, wooden water tank." -- David H.
The sobbing of lost souls escapes through its round mouth.
In Poem of the Deep Song, Lorca did not try to imitate the lyrics or music of cante jondo, but he did, I think, rely on its comp s in order to craft poems that would enact the experience of the solitary anguish that is cante jondo." --Ralph Angel, Words Without Borders" Garcia Lorca\'s] real impact, however, surely comes from the stark vividness of his imagery, his ability to conjure up primal subjective realms of love and death: The guitar makes dreams weep. . . .
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."Lorca was a minstrel, and he understood poetry as an oral expression.
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.
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.
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
