Paris, GLM, (March) 1948.
1 vol. (200 x 290 mm) of 70 p., [2] and 1 f. In wrappers.
First French edition, in translation.
One of 25 copies on Alfama paper, numbered and signed by the publisher, reserved for the Amis de GLM.
One of 25 copies on Alfama paper, numbered and signed by the publisher, reserved for the Amis de GLM.
“All understand the pain that comes with death,” he writes, “but true pain is not present in the mind […] / The true pain that keeps things awake / is a small, excessive burn in the innocent eyes of other systems.” Written in New York, where Federico García Lorca spent the year 1924 as a student at Columbia, the poems in this collection celebrate the city and its landscapes: “The dawn of New York has / four columns of mud / and a hurricane of black doves / paddling in the stagnant waters.” The “Double Poem of Lake Eden” occupies a special place among them: “here I am drinking my blood, drinking my horror of a ripened child.”
Publisher’s insert preserved.
Wrapper partially sunned.
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