Federico Garcia Lorca

In Search of Duende

"Let us agree that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of Saint Sebastian.  

Well then, before reading poems aloud before many creatures, the first thing one must do is invoke the duende.  

That is the only way that everybody will immediately succeed at the hard task of understanding metaphor (without depending on critical apparatus or intelligence)

and be able to catch, at the speed of the voice, the rhythmic design of the poem."

Prose Selections

Edited & translated by

Christopher Maurer