Lorca manuscript discovered
Detail from Lorca's manuscript for Oficina y denuncia. Photograph: Moldenhauer Archive, Library of Congress
Renowned Lorca scholar Christopher Maurer–editor of the poet’s Collected Poems—was doing research in the music division of the Library of Congress when he came across a manuscript of one of the poems of Poet in New York, including a set of previously unknown verses. The Guardian has the goods:
“It was extraordinary to find, in the US, the original of one of the central poems in Poet in New York,” the professor continued, adding that he “was charmed to think of Lorca, who was a brilliant pianist, keeping archival company with so many great composers”.
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