Lorca & Jimenez Selected Poems [Paperback]

A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions and powerful English translations on facing pages. In a new preface, editor and translator Robert Bly explores what the poems reveal today about politics, the spirit, and the purpose of art.Robert Blyis the author of the groundbreakingNew York TimesbestsellerIron John, which launched the men's movement to national fame, as well as several collections of original poetry; most recently,The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems. He has translated numerous poets into English, including Kabir, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Juan Ramon Jimenez, and Frederico Garcia Lorca.US