Collected Poems

Federico Garcia Lorca was born in 1898 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. In 1929-30, he studied in New York City, where he wrote the poems that were to be published posthumously. Upon returning to Spain he devoted much of his attention to theater. In 1936, at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, he was shot to death by anti-Republican rebels in Franco's army, and his books were banned and destroyed Christopher Maurer, is the author of numerous books and articles on Spanish poetry. He is head of the Department of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Illinois-ChicagoGarcía Lorca, Federico is the author of 'Collected Poems' with ISBN 9780374126155 and ISBN 0374126151.