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En "poema del cante jondo" Federico García Lorca se sumerge en el flamenco, como forma de expresión puramente andaluza, y juega con las formas tradicionales mientras experimenta, dejándonos una obra personalísima y emocionante. En sus poemas encontramos el lamento, el dolor, la muerte, pero también la belleza y el amor, además de personajes, históricos unos, ficticios y paradigmáticos otros, que se desenvuelven en un contexto a medio camino entre lo real y lo onírico. Una fusión entre poesía, música y teatro tan enraizada en la tradición, como en la vanguardia de su tiempo.

Diseño de portada: David Rubiales

In "poema del cante jondo" Federico García Lorca digs deeply into the soul of flamenco, as a purely Andalusian form of expression, and plays with traditional forms while experimenting, leaving us a very personal and exciting work. In his poems we find lament, pain, death, but also beauty and love, as well as characters, some historical, others fictitious and paradigmatic, that unfold in a context halfway between the real and the dreamlike. A fusion of poetry, music and theater as rooted in tradition as in the avant-garde of its time.

Cover art design: David Rubiales

Los cuatro poemas, de gran belleza y emotividad desgarrada, suponen una cumbre de la poesía taurina, y, pese a su sencillez, o quizá por eso, son una de las obras cumbres de su autor.

Diseño de portada: David Rubiales.

Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías is the emotional tribute, in four elegies, that Federico García Lorca dedicates to his friend, the bullfighter Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, who died as a result of injuries caused by a bull in 1934. It is a unitary work that recounts the poet's feelings and thoughts on four tragic elements: the bullfighter's injury and death, his spilled blood, the present body, and, finally, the absent soul.

The four poems, of great beauty and heart-breaking emotion, are the pinnacle of bullfighting poetry, and, despite their simplicity, or perhaps because of it, they are one of the author's greatest works.

Cover art design: David Rubiales.