POET IN NEW YORK

'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious pa ssion for the modernities of nickel and tinfoil and nitre . . .' So wrote Conrad Aiken of Lorca's violent response to the New York h e encountered as a student at Columbia University in 1929 and 1930. Born and brought up in Andalusia, Lorca's reaction to the brutal ity and loneliness of the vast city was one of amazement and indignation. His poetry moved away from the lyricism of the early Roman ceros an...[Llegir més]