Federico Garcia Lorca

In Search of Duende

All of the poems of deep song are magnificently pantheistic;

 the poets ask advice from the wind, the earth, the sea, the moon, and the things as simple as a violet, a rosemary, a bird.   

All exterior objects assume their own striking personalities and take on active roles in the lyrical action:

En mitád del má

había un piedra

y se sentaba mi compañerita

a contarle sus penas.

Out in the sea

was a stone.

My girl sat down

to tell it her pains.

Prose Selections

Edited & translated by

Christopher Maurer