Selected PoemsSpain's greatest and most well loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the songs of his Andalusian childhood. From the playful Suites and stylised Gypsy Ballads, to his own dark vision of urban life, Poet in New York, and his elegiac meditation on death, Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias; his range was remarkable. This bilingual edition