The Poetics of Apocalypse: Federico Garcia Lorca’s Poet in New York

Nandorfy (Brock U., St. Catharines, Canada) characterizes Spanish poet and playwright Lorca's (1898-1936) poem as an invitation to death, and finds in it a convergence of desires for social revolution and to revolutionize poetic discourse by pushing language beyond its limits. His trip to American, she explains, was in the midst of a three-fold personal crisis. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)