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The Crackling Sun includes 100 poems translated from poems in all 13 books of the 1977 Spanish Nobel Prize winner Vicente Aleixandre whom the translator knew personally and consulted on several occasions. It also has a lengthy introduction of some 75 pages explaining the evolution of his several styles, particularly the surrealist mode. The book is presently in 139 libraries in the U.S. ... Read more

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Chapters: Vicente Aleixandre, Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Luis de Góngora, Fernando Remacha, Guillermo de Torre, José Bergamín, Jorge Guillén, Pedro García Cabrera, Manuel Altolaguirre, K-Hito, Alejandro Casona, Rafael Alberti, Emilio Prados, Ernesto Halffter, Dámaso Alonso, Pedro Salinas, Edgar Neville, José Bello, Gerardo Diego, José López Rubio, Paulino Masip, Group of Eight, Juan Chabás. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 113. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Federico García Lorca (Spanish pronunciation: ) (5 June 1898 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is thought to be one of the many thousands who were 'disappeared' and executed by Nationalists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. In 2008, a Spanish judge opened an investigation into Lorca's death. Lorca's family dropped objections to the excavation of a possible gravesite near Alfacar but no human remains were found. García Lorca was born on 5 June 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros, a small town a few miles from Granada, in Andalusia, southern Spain. His father owned a farm in the fertile vega surrounding Granada and a comfortable villa in the heart of the city. His mother was a gifted pianist. In 1909, his family moved to the city of Granada. In 1915, after graduating from secondary school, García Lorca attended Sacred Heart University. During this time his studies included law, literature, composition and piano. During 1916 and 1917, García Lorca traveled throughout Castile, Léon, and Galicia, in northern Spain, with a professor of his university, who also encouraged him to write his first book, (Impressions and Landscapes published 1918). Statue of Lorca in the Plaza de Santa Ana, Madri...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=100031 ... Read more