Finding Duende
Garcia Lorca, Federico / Maurer, Christopher / Leon, Jose Javier / Maurer, Christopher
For years, Federico Garcâia Lorca's lecture on duende has been a source of insight for writers and performers, including Ted Hughes, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, and Amanda Gorman. Duende: Play and Theory not only provides a path into Lorca's poetics and the arts of Spain, it is one of the strangest, most compelling accounts of inspiration ever offered by a poet. Contrasting the demon called duende with the Angel and the Muse, Lorca describes a mys...