Federico García Lorca

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA (Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, 1898-Víznar to Alfacar, Granada, 1936).
"Poema del Cante Jondo" (Poem of the Cante Jondo), non-commercial edition, 1937.
Publisher: Veloz, Santiago de Chile.
Paperback binding. Preserves the original covers.
Measurements: 18.5 x 15 x 1 cm.
Federico García Lorca is one of the most representative figures of 20th century Spanish literature. Among his works most closely linked to Andalusian cultural roots is Poema del Cante Jondo, a set of compositions inspired by the popular musical tradition that explores themes such as destiny, pain, death and passion through a language of intense symbolic and lyrical force.
The present copy corresponds to a non-retail edition published in 1937, barely a year after the poet's death. This fact is of special bibliographical interest, since the non-commercial editions were not intended for commercial sale, but were printed for restricted distribution among institutions, collaborators, friends, subscribers or participants in tributes and cultural events. Due to their generally small print runs and limited circulation, these types of publications tend to be scarcer than ordinary editions and are especially prized by collectors and scholars.
The appearance of this edition in 1937 is inscribed in the context of the numerous editorial tributes dedicated to Lorca after his assassination, when his figure began to acquire a symbolic dimension within contemporary Spanish culture. The work also reflects one of the essential aspects of his poetic creation: the vindication of cante jondo as a profound and genuine artistic expression of the Andalusian popular soul.
From a literary perspective, Poema del Cante Jondo occupies a fundamental place in the aesthetic evolution of García Lorca. Although written in the 1920s, the book anticipates many of the motifs, images and symbolic resources that would reach full development in later works such as Romancero gitano. Its fusion of popular tradition and poetic modernity makes it one of the most representative titles of the so-called Generation of '27.
Due to its date of publication, its non-commercial nature and its close link to the poet's memory after his death, this copy is of considerable interest to collectors of Spanish literature, bibliophiles and researchers specializing in Lorca's work and in the publishing history of the Spanish Civil War.