[New-Poetry] Lorca's casa

[Anny Ballardini]

Dale Fuchs, a good friend of mine! Thanks for the article. She is the correspondent from Madrid for The New York Times.
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  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/arts/design/01lorca.html?ref=design
  Chasing a Shadowy Imp, García Lorca’s Muse 
  By DALE FUCHS
  Published: January 1, 2008
  GRANADA, Spain — Federico García Lorca called it “el duende” — in Spanish, the elf — a dark, irrational muse that leads artists to tragic depths. This dangerous goblin, who delights in the “tiny weeds of death,” as the early-20th-century Spanish poet and dramatist said in a lecture in Havana, haunted the streets of García Lorca’s “Poet in New York” and the moonlit night of “Blood Wedding.” It refused to take pity on the barren wombs, the weeping guitars or the silver-eyed Gypsy women of other García Lorca works. 
   
  And the little imp is making trouble still. More than 70 years after García Lorca’s death by a fascist firing squad at the start of the Spanish Civil War, the shadowy elf apparently inhabits García Lorca’s country home her


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