Federico García Lorca

This morning we note the birth date of Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director who achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature.

In the early 1930s Lorca helped inaugurate a second Golden Age of the Spanish theatre with his tragedies Bodas de Sangre (1933; Blood Wedding), Yerma (1934; and La Casa de Bernarda Alba (1936; The House of Bernarda Alba).

Lorca was executed in 1936 by a Nationalist firing squad in the first months of the Spanish Civil War.

Every Song

Every song
is the remains
of love.

Every light
the remains
of time.
A knot
of time.

And every sigh
the remains
of a cry.

― Federico García Lorca