Discovery of a Federico García Lorca Poem After 93 Years

According to the CinemaDrame News Agency, ninety-three years after Federico García Lorca, the renowned Spanish poet and playwright, wrote down an eight-line poem on the back of one of his manuscripts, this previously unknown poem has been discovered.

Ninety-three years after Federico García Lorca, the renowned Spanish poet and playwright, wrote down an eight-line poem on the back of one of his manuscripts, this previously unknown poem has been discovered.

This unpublished and unknown poem attributed to Federico García Lorca has been found 93 years after it is believed that the famous Spanish poet and playwright wrote it on the back of one of his manuscripts.

Lorca wrote this eight-line poem in 1933 while working on his collection Divan del Tamarit, a tribute to the Arab poets of his hometown Granada. It was discovered on the back of a copy of the book purchased from a German antique dealer by a flamenco singer and admirer of Lorca’s work.

The poem has been authenticated by Pepa Merlo, an expert on Lorca’s work, and will be included in a forthcoming book.

According to The Guardian, the short poem—written three years before Lorca was killed in the early days of the Spanish Civil War—reveals the poet’s enduring concern with the passage of time.

Federico García Lorca, whose works include Gypsy Ballads, Poet in New York, Blood Wedding, Yerma, and The House of Bernarda Alba, was executed in August 1936 by a right-wing death squad and is perhaps the most prominent victim of Spain’s three-year civil war. His body was never found and is believed to lie in a shallow grave at the foot of a hillside near Granada.

This newly discovered poem will be published in a book written by Podda and Merlo, titled Things from the Other Side: Unpublished Works of Federico García Lorca.