Name: My Night With Federico García Lorca
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Author: Jaime Manrique
ISBN: 9780299187644

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Jaime Manrique

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

136

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.3 x 0.9 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

9780299187644

ISBN13

9780299187644

Edition No.

Synopsis "My Night With Federico García Lorca "

This bilingual edition (in Spanish and English) collects Jaime Manrique's lyrical and sensual poems about his childhood in Colombia, memories of his family, and his more recent experiences and loves in Manhattan. Musical and romantic, these poems are in the tradition of Pablo Neruda.

Jaime Manrique

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Poet, storyteller, and essayist, he has written his work in both Spanish and English. He received the Eduardo Cote Lamus National Poetry Award in 1975 for his first book, Los adoradores de la luna. He has published books in both Spanish and English, including El cadáver de papá (1978; Seix Barral, 2019), Notas de cine (1979), Oro colombiano (1983), Luna latina en Manhattan (1992, Seix Barral 2022), Twilight at the Equator (1997), Maricones eminentes: Arenas, Lorca, Puig y Yo (2000), Nuestras vidas son los ríos (2006; Seix Barral, 2019), El callejón de Cervantes (2012), Como esta tarde para siempre (Seix Barral, 2018) and Si me ves por el camino (Seix Barral, 2021)
Some of his poetry collections include Mi noche con Federico García Lorca (1995), Tarzán, mi cuerpo, Cristóbal Colón (2000) and El libro de los muertos (selected poems 1973-2015) (2016). In 2000, he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and in 2007, Nuestras vidas son los ríos won the International Latino Book Award for best historical novel. The original English version of Como esta tarde para siempre was published in 2019 by Akashic Books in New York and was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Book Award for best gay novel of the year. Currently, Manrique is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.

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