La verdadera historia de amor oculta tras Poeta en Nueva York. En agosto de 1929, Federico Garc燰 Lorca interrumpe su estancia en Nueva York y viaja al norte de Vermont para pasar diez d燰s en una caba鎙 junto al lago Eden. All?le espera un joven estadounidense llamado Philip Cummings, profesor de idiomas a quien hab燰 conocido un a隳 antes en Madrid y con el cual mantuvo una relaci鏮 amorosa. No obstante, en este reencuentro se manifiestan dos expectativas distintas: la del poeta ya consagrado, que aspira a una relaci鏮 duradera, y la de un joven poco dispuesto a desafiar las convenciones sociales de la conservadora sociedad estadounidense. Nadie, hasta ahora, sab燰 realmente c鏔o este momento marcar燰 para siempre la vida del poeta.
Lorca en Vermont, fruto de m嫳 de una d嶰ada de investigaci鏮 y un cuidadoso trabajo con fuentes de primera mano, reconstruye una relaci鏮 que se extendi?durante tres a隳s y abarc?dos continentes, y examina tanto su intimidad como el posterior silenciamiento cr癃ico tras el asesinato del poeta en 1936. Asimismo, propone una nueva lectura de varios poemas de
Poeta en Nueva York, al vincular la experiencia afectiva de Lorca con algunas de las partes m嫳 significativas de esta obra.
El resultado es un estudio s鏊ido y de prosa clara que ampl燰 nuestra comprensi鏮 de un episodio desconocido hasta ahora pero decisivo en la vida del autor, e integra en su legado una dimensi鏮 璯tima que enriquece la interpretaci鏮 de su poemario m嫳 emblem嫢ico.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A groundbreaking reassessment of the relationship between Federico Garc燰 Lorca and American poet Philip Cummings and its impact on the poems in Lorca's landmark collection, Poet in New York. In August 1929, Spanish poet Federico Garc燰 Lorca left New York City to spend ten days with his friend and lover Philip Cummings at a lakeside cottage in northern Vermont.
Lorca in Vermont tells the story of two young men with mismatched goals and expectations: Lorca, already well established in his career, who sought a sustained romantic relationship with another man, and Cummings, a new college graduate eight years his junior, who had no interest in long-term commitment or in challenging social conventions.
Based on over a decade of research,
Lorca in Vermont explores the full course of Lorca's relationship with Cummings, an affair that spanned three years and two continents. Combining unique access to primary sources, extensive original research, and a fresh analysis of published sources, the book describes not only the pair's history as a couple but also the suppression of their relationship by Lorca scholars after the poet's tragic death in 1936. Perhaps most importantly, it reveals previously unrecognized links between the disappointment and loss Lorca experienced in his relationship with Cummings and at least eight of the poems in his landmark collection
Poet in New York, a work that has long intrigued and inspired other writers.
The book brilliantly blends compelling new findings and an engaging narrative style in a page-turning tale that is a must read for anyone interested in Lorca and his legacy.
