The year is 1929 and Federico García Lorca sets out on a journey to New York in search of distance: from a broken love, from the overwhelming success of Romancero gitano, and from an environment that no longer offers him comfort. In the city of skyscrapers, he finds modernity, avant-garde, and a new freedom to observe, experience, and write.
From those nine months in North America comes Poeta en Nueva York, one of the most personal, groundbreaking, and visionary collections of poetry in 20th-century Spanish literature. Published posthumously, the book captures the poet’s astonishment, critique, and alienation in the face of an industrialized society marked by racism, fierce capitalism, and urban dehumanization.
This edition, published by Editorial Alma, is part of their Clásicos ilustrados collection. With contemporary visual design and hardcover binding, it brings this essential text to new readers without losing the symbolic intensity or the committed and poetic voice of its author.
