Robert W Bly

Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems Robert W Bly

Publisher Marketing: A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions and powerful English translations on facing pages. In a new preface, editor and translator Robert Bly explores what the poems reveal today about politics, the spirit, and the purpose of art. Contributor Bio:  Bly, Robert W Robert W. Bly, a full-time freelance writer since 1982, is the author of eighty books, including The Ultimate Unauthorized Star Trek Quiz Book and The Science in Science Fiction. Bly holds a B. S. in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester and has published more than one hundred articles in numerous periodicals, including Cosmopolitan and Writer s Digest. Contributor Bio:  Garcia Lorca, Federico Federico Garcia Lorca, one of Spain's greatest poets and dramatists, was born in a village near Granada in 1898 and was murdered in 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Contributor Bio:  Bly, Robert Robert Bly's books of poetry include The Night Abraham Called to the Stars and My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy. His awards include the National Book Award for poetry and two Guggenheims. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.