Poet in Andalucia

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Frederico García lived in Manhattan from 1929 to 1930, and the poetry he wrote about the city, Poet in New York, was posthumously published in 1940. Eighty years after Lorca’s sojourn to America, Nathalie Handal, a poet from New York, went to Spain to write Poet in Andalucía. Handal recreated Lorca’s journey in reverse. Contents Preface I. Poems of Soledad con Biznagas in Málaga Ojalá Walking to the Alcázar The Wounded Horse and a Tree in an Old Night Gypsy with a Song Tomás Heredia, 8 Biznagas II. Maktoub, the Moor Said El País Tree of Red Leaves, Jaén 2009 Paraguas Perdido The Courtyard of Colegiata del Salvador Sacromonte The Moor III. Alleys and Reveries Christmas in Benalmádena On the Way to Jerez de la Frontera The Thing about Feathers Now That Prophet in Andalucía IV. Constelación en el Ateneo de Sevilla Seven Stars in Sevilla V. In Córdoba Alhandal y las Murallas de Córdoba 10 Qit’as Patios VI. By the Door, or Is It Death Dado La Guerra While Waiting for Death VII. Granada Sheets of Dry Wind Granada Sings Whitman VIII. Convivencia Awon / Sin Convivencia / Two Ghazals Two Tzvis Abásho The Book of Toledo IX. Flight to Catalunya and Afternoons in Galicia Testament in Barcelona Quartet in Catalunya Waltz of a Dream Santiago X. The Poet Arrives in Tangier and Afterward Tanger Bleu La Movida The Traveler On My Way to Tamarit Notes and Memories Acknowledgments