How a City Sings from November to November

How a City Sings from November to November/ Comó canta una ciudad de noviembre a noviembre	translated and edited by Christopher Maurer	License Expired, Rights Reverted
by Federico García Lorca	cover illustration, both editions by Federico García Lorca	ISBN 0-932274-36-6
first edition 1983	portrait of Lorca by Carolyn Cassady	100 PAGES. 6" x 9"

	calligraphy by Pamela Orphan
Bilingual, with translation en face from Spanish text	Issued with sheet music, inserted, for two of the songs


	From the Book Like the boy full of wonder who shows his mother dressed in bright colors for the party, I want to show you the city where I was born, the city of Granada. I will give you examples of her music, and I will have to sing them . . . feeling quite so proud. Why must we always use only our sight, and never our smell or taste to study a city? The special pastries, the alfajor, the torta alajú, the mantecado of Laujar, tell us quite as much about Granada as do the glazed tiles or the Moorish arch.

	This long prose poem was read by Lorca on his tour of South America in 1934 and was published here in its first English translation by the distinguished Lorca scholar and translator, Christopher Maurer; in it Lorca captures the sensuous tonalities of Granada by punctuating his recitation with the Andalusian folk songs he found so illustrative of the spirit of his native city.

	About the Book
	Of unusual importance [is] How a City Sings from November to November, a translation of Lorca's lecture about Granada—written in 1933 but here appearing in English for the first time, and furnished with a portrait of the author by Beat-connected artist Carolyn Cassady.
	— Mary Biggs
	CHOICE, September 1985

	also by Christopher Maurer, Afterword for Pelicans

How a City Sings from
November to November/
Comó canta una
ciudad de noviembre
a noviembre