ROMANCERO GITANO POEMA DEL CANTE JONDO FREE

Sponsored by the Second Republic, it toured rural Spain giving free performances and performing classic Spanish theatre in radically modern interpretations. This experience and his passion for the relationship between poetry and its readers, theatre and its public, made him a natural ally with Lorca, who returned from New York in 1930 after the fall of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, and was appointed director of the student theatre company, Teatro Universitario La Barraca. Prior to 1928 Zalamea had spent two years travelling around Central America with a troupe of comic actors, and had published his first play in 1927, El regreso de Eva. In an effort to help him recover from his depression, he was persuaded to spend the next two years in America, during which time he wrote A Poet in New York, published posthumously. Lorca was just emerging from a period which had seen great acclaim for his Romancero gitano ('Gypsy Ballads'), mixed with personal sadness and depression following his estrangement from DalГ and BuГ±uel, and the breakdown of his love affair with the sculptor AladrГ©n Perojo.

He is thought to have first met Lorca in 1928, when Zalamea travelled to Spain in his capacity as Commercial Advisor to the LegaciГіn Colombiana. Zalamea (1905-1969) was a Colombian writer and diplomat, author of anti-dictatorship satirical prose works, poems, dramas, novels, translations and essays. A RARE PRESENTATION COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, INSCRIBED BY LORCA TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND JORGE ZALAMEA, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES.Poema del cante jondo, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author with his trademark signature in red crayon on front free endpaper ('A mi querido Jorge con un abrazo fraternal de Federico 1921-1931/ Madrid'), some spotting and browning, blank piece torn from corner of one leaf, publisher's wrappers printed in red and black, frayed, inner flaps torn (one at front detached, one at rear missing), rebacked, 8vo, Madrid, Ediciones Ulises, 1931

Romancero gitano poema del cante jondo