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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The Blind NIghtingale

 I had forgotten this: in the essay "Arquitectura del cante jondo," Lorca refers to the genre as a "ruiseñor ciego," without much visual imagery. His own tribute to the music, though, does incorporate the landscape. Then, we have a poetics oriented toward the visual (in Lorca's modernism) but also the evocation of another musical poetics not oriented toward the visual at all. 

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