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Cicada! Paperback – Sept. 30 2025
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Now you slip away in sleep.
Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore.
Spain’s most beloved poet, Federico García Lorca brilliantly captures the beauty and brutality of the twentieth century. His creative imagination transcends his own experiences – be it from the perspective of an ant, a gypsy nun, or Socrates – to meditate on death, love and honour, and to interrogate the decay and pretence of his society. Lorca’s poetry excites, moves and disarms.
- Print length128 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin Classic
- Publication dateSept. 30 2025
- Dimensions11.1 x 0.8 x 18.1 cm
- ISBN-100241746841
- ISBN-13978-0241746844
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Born in Andalusia, Spain, in 1898, Lorca studied in Madrid as a young man and soon became prominent in artistic circles; in 1928 his book of Gypsy Ballads catapulted him to literary stardom. He escaped to New York for a year in 1929, where he found he was able to focus on his poetry and immerse himself in the thriving gay culture of Harlem; upon returning to republican Spain he became increasingly politicized, devoting himself to radical works of theatre that rebelled against the bourgeois status quo.
Just after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was murdered at Granada by Nationalist partisans. He was thirty-eight years old.
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- Publisher : Penguin Classic
- Publication date : Sept. 30 2025
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- Print length : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0241746841
- ISBN-13 : 978-0241746844
- Item weight : 82 g
- Dimensions : 11.1 x 0.8 x 18.1 cm
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