![[To find a kiss of yours] Federico García Lorca - 1898-1936 translated by Sarah Arvio To find a kiss of yours what would I give A kiss that strayed from your lips dead to love My lips taste the dirt of shadows To gaze at your dark eyes what would I give Dawns of rainbow garnet fanning open before God— The stars blinded them one morning in May And to kiss your pure thighs what would I give Raw rose crystal sediment of the sun](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HWrgScpbEAAHiFP.jpg?name=small&format=webp)
ALT [To find a kiss of yours] Federico García Lorca - 1898-1936 translated by Sarah Arvio To find a kiss of yours what would I give A kiss that strayed from your lips dead to love My lips taste the dirt of shadows To gaze at your dark eyes what would I give Dawns of rainbow garnet fanning open before God— The stars blinded them one morning in May And to kiss your pure thighs what would I give Raw rose crystal sediment of the sun
![[‘Tuk temukan kecupmu] ‘Tuk temukan kecupmu rela kuberi segala Kecup yang mengembara dari bibirmu mati pula bagi asmara Bibirku mengecap debu kelam dari bayang ‘Tuk tatap legam netramu rela kuberi segala Bentang fajar delima berona pelangi merekah di hadapan Tuhan— Bintang-bintang membutakannya suatu pagi di bulan Mei Dan ‘tuk kecup paha sucimu rela kuberi segala Kristal dari mawar purba sedimen sang surya](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HWrgScvaoAAPROM.jpg?name=small&format=webp)
ALT [‘Tuk temukan kecupmu] ‘Tuk temukan kecupmu rela kuberi segala Kecup yang mengembara dari bibirmu mati pula bagi asmara Bibirku mengecap debu kelam dari bayang ‘Tuk tatap legam netramu rela kuberi segala Bentang fajar delima berona pelangi merekah di hadapan Tuhan— Bintang-bintang membutakannya suatu pagi di bulan Mei Dan ‘tuk kecup paha sucimu rela kuberi segala Kristal dari mawar purba sedimen sang surya

ALT A TRANSLATION OF LORCA’S “EL PUBLICO” Thomas Earl Barden Richmond, Virginia B.A. University of Virginia, 1968 A Thesis Presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts Department of English University of Virginia June, 1972

ALT Introduction The Audience was written during a period of transition for Garcia Lorca. He began the play in New York or Havana in either 1929 or 1930. He was working on another experimental play called If Five Years Pass (Asi que pasen cinco años) at the same time. Both of these plays show a movement in the direction of surrealism, but the acts available from The Audience (El Publico) constitute Lorca’s most sustained surrealistic effort.

ALT Perhaps, had Lorca lived, plays like these, and especially The Audience, would have become more important to Lorca scholars. Act III, scene i, of Blood Wedding, with its surreal character, “The Moon,” and the old beggar woman who is death, gives an indication of the uses to which Lorca might have put surrealism. At least we can see how he actually did use the style by looking at the two available acts of The Audience. The portions of the play which are translated here are not the only existing pieces of the play. There are remnants








































