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¡Por fin! Yo terminé este libro desdes unos meses y me encanta! 🥰😍 In addition to the poems, there's also a very informative intro, and some of Lorca's letters to his family from the time he wrote the poems, so it's like reading 3 books in one! Despite this being a bilingual edition, I still found myself looking up several words on each page that didn't quite 'match' the translation, and made lots of notes and learned a lot of new vocabulary.

Finished! I‘ll drop this in the mail this week! #lmpbc @phantomx @SamAnne @WanderingBookaneer

I enjoyed learning about this poet and this collection! Thanks for sharing!

@WanderingBookaneer @phantomx @SamAnne got these today! #lmpbc

This bilingual edition of Federico Lorca's poem collection Poet in New York was intriguing. The poems feel abstract in English, but in Spanish it feels like a stream of consciousness in regards to the various known spots in New York. The letters showed another side of Lorca, and it did show more of his emotions about his time in New York and about his family. #lmpbc #lgbtq #poetry #round12 @WanderingBookaneer @SamAnne @TheBookKeepers

Sending my LMPBC book today! I've been slammed with so much work during the month, but I read the entire collection. @WanderingBookaneer gave me the idea to use a journal to write down my thoughts on the book, kinda like writing letters or a diary entry. I'll let ya'll know when I've sent out my package @TheBookKeepers @SamAnne @suvata #LMPBC #Group U

Took some time during a virtual meeting to markup #LMPBC for #GroupU. Almost done with Lorca's Poet in New York @WanderingBookaneer @TheBookKeepers @SamAnne

It's been such a long long time since I've read poetry. I'm torn between all four poetry collections. #LMPBC #GroupU @TheBookKeepers @WanderingBookaneer @SamAnne

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🍷poeta en nueva york, from bodegas rambla huarea (albuñol)

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My heart is still there.

“When you've seen New York, you've seen almost every city in North America. Everything is uniformly the same.”

“When you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.”

Lorca wasn't, I think, excusing criminality, but empathising with how social inequality he witnessed creates an environment in which criminality becomes a means of survival.

“I denounce everyone
who ignores the other half,
the half that can't be redeemed”

I enjoyed what I understood & what I didn't was evocative in a gnomic way. As Lorca was a surrealist there's a good chance I wasn't meant to understand everything, which gives me some consolation. I did enjoy the letters home, which gave an insight his family relations. Footnotes showing lapses of memory & occasional exaggerations & untruths were interesting. I'm not sure that I'll seek out more of Lorca's poetry but I will revisit this collection

"Fury, the color of love/love, the color of forgetting"
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Stepping outside my reading comfort zone with this bilingual edition of Poeta en Nueva York - it's a good chance to practice my Spanish and it checks off the "poetry in translation on a theme other than love" box for the #readharder challenge! ??

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.