In 1929, Spain's most promising poet & playwright, Federico Garcia-Lorca, traveled to Columbia University in New York City. A young American, Philip Cummings, who he met in Spain, invited him to spend time with him at his families summer cottage in Lake Eden, Vermont. It was in this place of natural beauty that the Poet continued his work on what would be his epic poem, Poet In New York. ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ?The majority of the poems he wrote at Lake Eden would comprise the Pastoral mid-section of that great poem. Garcia-Lorca would also go through his Dark Night of the Soul,a vocational & existential crisis that would be captured in the poems written in Vermont. This monograph , part biography, part critical study, captures this watershed time in Garcia-Lorca's life & work, featuring the gold standard translation of the poems by Simon & White.?
? ? ? ? Garcia-Lorca wouldn't live to see his magnum opus to print. He was executed by the Fascists at the start of the Spanish Civil War. In the years that followed, his work would go through much scrutiny before being published. The tale to be told of his Vermont host, Philip Cummings, would add another colorful chapter to Garcia-Lorca's reputation, and is recounted here. In 2013, New York City would host a city wide celebration for the 2nd revised edition of the Simon & White translation of Garcia-Lorca's masterpiece, including a panel discussion of the Poet's time in Vermont, & it's effect on his life & work.
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