Lorca's Poet in New York

Written in 19291930, when Federico Garca Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century. It expresses, as Betty Jean Craige writes in this volume,"a sudden radical estrangement of the poet from his universe"an an estrangement graphically delineated in the dissonant, violent imagery which the poet derives from the t...