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“Ghazal of Dark Death” is my translation of “Gacela de la Muerte Oscura,” a poem from Federico García Lorca’s Diván del Tamarit.
In the last verse of “Ghazal of Dark Death,” the narrator declares that he wants “to live with the that dark child,” perhaps a bastard son by a dark woman.
My ghazal “American Boy” samples lines from “Ghazal of Dark Death” and other gacelas from Diván.
Agha Shahid Ali, the Kashmiri-American poet who taught English-language poets the traditional ghazal form, introduced this technique.
Federico garcia lorca poem about death
In one of his ghazals, he used it to sample lines from Emily Dickinson. Sampling honors a poet who influenced and inspired the ghazal poet. Though I only knew him through his writing, Federico García Lorca was for me what Dickinson called a “friend of the bookshelf.”
“Ghazal of Dark Death,” an English Translation of “Gacela de la Muerte Oscura”
I want to sleep the dream of apples,
to escape the riot