With Anna Hiller and Katia Noyes
Produced by Mark Pritchard
Music by Daniel Fries

Works cited:

• Pablo Neruda, "Ode to Federico García Lorca"
• César Vallejo, “España, Aparta de Mí Este Cáliz”  
• Sharon Olds, "35-10"
• Vicente Huidobro, "The Poet Is a Little God: Creationist Verse" 
   (translated by Jorge García-Gómez, 1990)
• Federico García Lorca, "Romancero gitano"
• Federico García Lorca, "Poet in New York"

Recorded:  28 March 2021
With: Anna Hiller, Katia Noyes, Mark Pritchard; music by Daniel Fríes

Works cited:
• "Romance sonámbulo" by Federico García Lorca
• "Romance de la luna, luna" by Federico García Lorca

In our first full episode, Anna and Katia talk about the poem Romance sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca. You can read the poem in Spanish, and in the English translation by William Bryant Logan, here.

The title can be translated as “Sleepwalking Ballad.” First published in the Revista de Occidente in 1928, the poem appears in Lorca’s Romanerco Gitano (Gypsy Ballads) published the same year.

If you’d like to read an extraordinary analysis of the poem, see this essay by Jose Antonio Serrano Segura.

Works cited:

• Romance sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca
• "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney