The Dialogue of Two Snails (Federico Garca-A Lorca); Ballantine Books, 2021

My heart

brims with billows

and minnows

of shadows and silver

Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations.

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