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Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblemat ...

. It is a body of poems composed during the visit of the poet to

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in New York in the years 1929/1930. During his stay, the stock market crashed in October 1929, an event which profoundly affected his poetic vision. After his stay in New York, Lorca traveled to Cuba, where he wrote one of the poems included in the book, "Son de negros en Cuba", before returning to Spain. The book was not published until 1940, after Lorca's death. Due to Franco's dictatorship, it was originally released in

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and the United States (translated by Rolfe Humphries). In

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, García Lorca had left

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to attend some conferences in the

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and

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. Yet, it is said Lorca's reason to leave their homeland was to make a change of environment due to self-identity reasons with his sexuality and the oppression the author was suffering from.

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{{Authority control 1940 poetry books Poetry by Federico García Lorca Spanish poetry collections

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