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My
Night with Federico García Lorca
Jaime
Manrique
Translations by Edith Grossman and Eugene Richie
"A poet of admirable rigor and exactitude."—Reinaldo
Arenas
This bilingual edition (in Spanish and English) collects Jaime
Manrique's lyrical and sensual poems about his childhood in Colombia,
memories of his family, and his more recent experiences and loves
in Manhattan. Musical and romantic, these poems are in the tradition
of Pablo Neruda.
"Memories
of an ecstatic childhood—walks by the sea, 'a happy mambo,'
eating deceptive tropical fruits—merge with those of recent
loves in these luscious, incantatory poems."—John Ashbery
"The most
accomplished gay Latino writer of his generation."—Washington
Post Book World
Jaime Manrique is the author of the memoir Eminent
Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me, also published by
the University of Wisconsin Press, the novels Twilight at
the Equator and Colombian Gold, and two poetry collections,
My Night with Federico García Lorca and Tarzan,
My Body, Christopher Columbus. He is cotranslator, with Joan
Larkin, of Sor Juana's Love Poems. He lives in New York
City and is an associate professor in the MFA program at Columbia
University.
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March
2003
136 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-18764-0 Paper $15.95t
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