Sonnets of dark love

This book brings together the love poems Federico García Lorca was writing before his murder in 1936, alongside a generous selection of his drawings. 

Between 1935 and 1936, Lorca wrote eleven love sonnets that formed a distinct, though ultimately truncated, cycle. In doing so, he was following a trend among younger poets of the 1930s: a return to stanzaic forms as an exercise in poetic mastery, a practice that coexisted with the use of free verse.