Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Federico García Lorca: De Profundis



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Dryland farming, Granada region, Spain: Andalusian fields, seen from La Calahorra Castle
: photo by Jebulon, 11 August 2009









Those hundred lovers

are asleep forever

beneath the dry earth.

Andalusia has

long, red-colored roads.

Córdoba, green olive trees

for placing a hundred crosses

to remember them.

Those hundred lovers

are asleep forever.















Dryland Farming #24, Monegros County, Aragon, Spain: photo by Edward Burtynsky, 2010 (via Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)







Dryland Farming #31, Monegros County, Aragon, Spain:
photo by Edward Burtynsky, 2010 (via Edward Burtynsky Photographic Works)



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Typical landscape of Los Monegros comarca, near Leciñena, Aragon, Spain
: photo by Willtron, 14 April 2008




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The poem De Profundis by Federico García Lorca on the eastern wall of the Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw, at the corner of the Langebrug and the Zonneveldstraat in Leiden, The Netherlands: photo by Tubantia, 11 September 2008



Federico García Lorca: De Profundis, from Poema del Cante Jondo, 1931, trans. by Carlos Bauer, 1987