The Lorca Variations: I-XXXIIIAs poet and experimental translator, pioneer in performance poetry and ethnopoetics, Jerome Rothenberg for over three decades has been a literary radical and prominent influence in the American avant-garde. Among his own earliest sources was the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whose "composition through images ... opened my mind to the contemporary poetry of Europe & of something possibly older & deeper that would surface for us in America as well." Having recently returned to translating Lorca, Rothenberg began to appropriate and rearrange items of Lorca's vocabulary and to compose a series of poems of his own that "both are & aren't mine, both are & aren't Lorca." As an original work, The Lorca Variations are, as he describes them, "a way of coming full circle into a discovery that began with Lorca & for which he has stood with certain others as a guide & constant fellow-traveler." |
Contents
A Homage | 1 |
II Blue PoemsBlue River | 2 |
Lorcas Clocks | 5 |
IV More Clocks | 8 |
V Mirror Visions | 9 |
VI At Night | 13 |
VII Water | 16 |
VIII Backwaters | 18 |
XVI Seaside Sirens Stars | 35 |
XVII God Dark with Palm Trees | 37 |
XVIII Those Who Wait | 40 |
In a Time of War | 42 |
XX Songs at Nightfall | 44 |
XXI The Return | 47 |
XXII Shadows | 49 |
XXIII White | 52 |
A Cuckoo Suite | 19 |
X Sublunar Visions | 23 |
XI Newton | 25 |
Federico Newton Adam | 27 |
XIII Fireworks Suite | 30 |
XIV Wheel of Fortune | 33 |
XV Water Jets | 34 |
XXIV Lorcas Mirror | 56 |
XXV Two Allegories | 58 |
XXVI Palimpsests | 60 |
XXVII Lorcas Journals | 63 |
XXVIII For Turtles | 67 |
XXIX Lunar Grapefruits | 69 |
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