DUENDE

Duende, That Dark And Elusive Force Described By Federico Garcia Lorca, Is The Creative And Ecstatic Power An Artist Seeks To Channel From Within. It Can Lead The Artist Toward Revelation, But It Must Also, Lorca Says, Accept And Even Serenade The Possibility Of Death. The Author’s Bold Second Poetry Collection Explores History And The Intersections Of Folk Traditions, Political Resistance, And Personal Survival. This Collection Gives Passionate Testament To Suppressed Cultures, And Allows Them To Sing. History — Flores Woman — The Searchers — September — Letter To A Photojournalist Going-in El Mar — Astral — Minister Of Saudade — I Don’t Miss It — Igor At Gunpoint — Diego, — Western Fragment — After Persephone — To Burn With A Low Blue Flame — One Man At A Time — Poem In Which Nobody Says, I Told You So — Now That The Weather Has Turned — Duende — Slow Burn — Interrogative — When Zappa Crashes My Family Reunion — Theft — I Killed You Because You Didn’t Go To School And Had No Future — Into The Moonless Night — The Opposite Of War — Costa Chica — In Brazil — Vaya, Camarón — Nocturne : Andalusian Dog — The Nobodies. By Tracy K. Smith. Winner Of The 2006 James Laughlin Award Of The Academy Of American Poets–p. [4] Of Cover. Includes Bibliographical References (page 87).