{"product_id":"9781559360807","title":"Blood Wedding and Yerma","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Mesmerizing and haunting…a lyrical translation.” \u003ci\u003e–BroadwayWorld.com\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Passionate, primal and poetic…beautifully translated by Langston Hughes.” \u003ci\u003e–NOW Toronto\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Merwin’s] translation reveals this sensitivity, this sense of scale and musicality.” –Melia Benussen, \u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of Spain’s greatest poets and dramatists, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote in many styles but achieved maturity and fame with his peasant plays, \u003ci\u003e Blood Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYerma\u003c\/i\u003e , in which impassioned language and imagery accentuate tragic narratives. These never-before published translations unite Garcia Lorca’s masterpieces with two of America’s most gifted poets, Langston Hughes and W.S. Merwin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe epigrammatic style and unsentimental lyricism of W.S. Merwin heighten the urgency and fervor of \u003ci\u003eYerma\u003c\/i\u003e , the story of a woman whose thwarted yearning for a child makes her murder her indifferent husband. Preeminent African-American poet Langston Hughes infuses his version of \u003ci\u003eBlood Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e —the story of an unwilling bride who elopes with her lover on her wedding night—with the rhythmic intensity and linguistic beauty only a fellow poet could achieve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50079215026416,"sku":"9781559360807","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781559360807","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}