Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)was born in Fuente Vaqueros, a few miles outside Granada in the province of Andalusia, southern Spain. From an early age he was fascinated by Spain's mixed heritage, adapting its ancient folk songs, ballads, lullabies, and flamenco music into poems and plays. By the age of thirty, he had published five books of poems, culminating in 1928 with Gypsy Ballads, which brought him far-reaching fame. In 1929/30 he studied in New York City, where he wrote the poems―among his most socially engaging and compelling―that were to be pu
12 Poemas de Amor incluye algunos de los mejores poemas del genero, poco conocidos para la mayoria, escritos por algunos de los mas grandes poetas en espanol, del siglo IXX y XX