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«Everything will be published, it was not missing more. You know my rule: ‘late, but on time’ “, that’s how he expressed himself Federico Garcia Lorca, and thus this precept has just been fulfilled in the Spanish publishing sector. And it is that, from time to time, good books appear that arouse an immediate interest to one. This is the case of ‘Tierra y Luna + Un poeta en Nueva York’ (Conference-Recital) by Federico García Lorca, published by the San Millán de la Cogolla Foundation and Ediciones del 4 de Agosto.
García Lorca’s unpublished book ‘Tierra y Luna’ and the edition of the famous conference-recital on his celebrated book ‘Poeta en Nueva York’, with drawings and photographs by Lorca himself, appear in a charming case. It is not uncommon for Ediciones del 4 de Agosto to recover, this time at the hands of the Extremaduran professor and researcher Hilario Jiménez Gómez, Federico García Lorca’s poetry since, if we look back, they have already done the same with the poetry of other eminent authors: the María Teresa de León from Logroño (‘Song of the empty moon’, edition by Hilario Jiménez Gómez and Enrique Cabezón) and Rafael Azcona (‘I don’t sing because I exist, I exist because I sing’, by Luis Alberto Cabezón), or the calandino Luis Buñuel (‘An Andalusian dog’). And it is not uncommon for the San Millán Foundation, an institution of the land that was the cradle of the first poet with a known name in our language, to help give birth to an unpublished collection of poems by one of the indispensable poets of the last century, such as the author he dreamed it and wanted it.
‘Earth and moon‘, a book initially worked in the field, in the North American lands of New England, contains the seventeen poems designed by García Lorca for this collection of poems: ten from the New York corpus, three that were included in García Lorca’s later book’ Diván del Tamarit ‘ and, finally, four other single poems (‘Earth and moon’, ‘Omega’, ‘Song of small death’ and ‘Little infinite poem’). They were all written during the american experience of a García Lorca moved by the capitalist industrialized society that he found there and that he disapproves of in his poems, putting human poetry before dehumanization, fair against unreason, free against submission and discrimination, and with a maximum expressive force.
To paraphrase the poet from Granada, what can be said about his poetry, “what am I going to tell you about those clouds, about that sky. Just look, look, look at them, look at him, and nothing more ». And read it, because 87 years later the book ‘Tierra y Luna’ is published, just as García Lorca conceived it. And in this way, according to Hilario Jiménez in his prologue, to achieve: “to fully illuminate –now yes- one of the most ambitious and transcendental poetic ensembles in world literature.”
In the second book, ‘A poet in New York‘(Conference-Recital), García Lorca anticipates the publication of’ Poeta en Nueva York ‘by reading some of his verses and explaining how they emerged. Reading and analyzing, at the same time, “a huge, very long book. A book to kill one. In this case, an entire audience “, as he himself stated. In the ten poems that he reels in his Conference-Recital, we witness the vision of his particular universe derived from his trip to the USA and Cuba.
Therefore, this case with two books by Federico García Lorca is highly recommended, an authentic literary gem of one of the most vitalist poets in world literature.
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