This work was published posthumously in 1940, but written between 1929-1930 in New York, during Lorca\'s time as a student at Columbia University.
Many of the poems are dedic.
Lorca writes about loneliness and despair in a nightmare city where oppressed beings roam amid their own misery.
He speaks of the New York ravaged by poverty after the crash of 1929.
Poeta en Nueva York showcases undeniable poetic surrealist inspirations, yet is rather more gloomy than most of the author\'s poems.
This work was published posthumously in 1940, but written between 1929-1930 in New York, during Lorca\'s time as a student at Columbia University