Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems

CONTENTS PREFACE: REREADING LORCA AND JIMÉNEZ by Robert Bly xi Selected Poems of JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ UNDER THE WATER 1 From EARLY POEMS Adolescencia 8 Adolescence 9 "Yo estaba junto a mi mesa" 10 "I Was Sitting" 11 "Las carretas" 14 "The Lumber Wagons" 15 Estampa de invierno 16 Winter Scene 17 "Quién sabe" 18 "Who Knows What Is Going On" 19 "El recuerdo se va" 20 "A Remembrance Is Moving" 21 "El cordero balaba dulcemente" 22 "The Lamb Was Bleating Softly" 23 Retorno fugaz 24 Return for an Instant 25 From DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED "Qué cerca ya del alma" 28 "Something So Close" 29 Noctorno 30 Night Piece 31 "Te deshojé, como una rosa" 32 "I Took off Petal After Petal" 33 Cementerio 34 Cemetery 35 "En subway" 36 "In the Subway" 37 Alta noche 38 Deep Night 39 Author's Club 40 Author's Club 41 Walt Whitman 42 Walt Whitman 43 Un imitador de Billy Sunday 44 An Imitator of Billy Sunday 45 Deshora 48 Wrong Time 49 "Andan por New York" 50 "In New York" 51 Cristales morados y muselinas blancas 52 Lavender Windowpanes and White Curtains 53 Remordimiento 54 Remorse 55 Noctorno 56 Night Piece 57 From LATER POEMS "Intelijencia, dame" 60 "Intelligence, Give Me" 61 Mares 62 Oceans 63 "La música" 64 "Music" 65 "Cobré la rienda" 66 "I Pulled on the Reins" 67 A Dante 68 To Dante 69 El recuerdo 70 The Memory 71 Desvelo 72 Being Awake 73 Ruta 74 Road 75 "Yo no soy no" 76 "I Am Not I" 77 "El barco entra, opaco y negro" 78 "The Ship, Solid and Black" 79 "Tan bien como se encuentra" 80 "Even Though My Soul" 81 Blancor 80 Whiteness 81 Luna grande 82 Full Moon 83 "Vino, primero, pura" 84 "At First She Came to Me Pure" 85 Auroras de Moguer 86 Dawns of Moguer 87 Aurora de trasmuros 88 Dawn Outside the City Walls 89 El nombre conseguido de los nombres 90 The Name Drawn from the Names 91 Conciencia plena 92 Full Consciousness 93 FIRST GLIMPSE OF JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ by Rafael Alberti 94 Selected Poems of FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA GARCÍA LORCA AND CRETE 100 From EARLY POEMS Preguntas 106 Questions 107 El niño mudo 108 The Boy Unable to Speak 109 Juan Ramón Jiménez 110 "Juan Ramón Jiménez" 111 Malagueña 112 Malaguena 113 Canción de jinete 114 Song of the Rider 115 La guitarra 116 The Guitar 117 La soltera en misa 118 The Unmarried Woman at Mass 119 La luna asoma 120 "The Moon Sails Out" 121 From ROMANCERO GITANO Reyerta 124 The Quarrel 125 Thamar y Amnón 128 Thamar and Amnón 129 Preciosa y el aire 136 Preciosa and the Wind 137 From POETA EN NUEVA YORK Vuelta de paseo 144 Home from a Walk 145 Iglesia abandonada 146 Rundown Church 147 Danza de la muerte 150 Dance of Death 151 Ciudad sin sueño 158 City That Does Not Sleep 159 La aurora 162 Sunrise 163 Muerte 164 Death 165 Paisaje con dos tumbas y un perro asirio 166 Landscape with Two Graves and an Assyrian Hound 167 Pequeño poema infinito 168 Little Inifinite Poem 169 New York 172 New York 173 Son de negros en Cuba 178 Song of the Cuban Blacks 179 From DIVAN DEL TAMARIT Casida de la rosa 184 Casida of the Rose 185 Casida de las palomas oscuras 186 Casida of the Shadowy Pigeons 187 Casida del llanto 188 Casida of Sobbing 189 Gacela de la terrible presencia 190 Ghazal of the Terrifying Presence 191 Gacela de la muerte oscura 192 Ghazal of the Dark Death 193