Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) is Spain’s best-known and most beloved poet and playwright. José Javier León teaches at the Center of Modern Languages, University of Granada, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including Bolero: El vicio de quererte. Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University. He is editor and translator of Sebastian’s Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, New Letters to a Young Poet by Joan Margarit, and The Complete Perfectionist by Juan Ramón Jiménez, all published by Swan Isle Press.

"Finding Duende presents, in English and Spanish, the most complete and accurate versions so far possible of both “Duende: Play and Theory” (as it is titled here) and an earlier lecture, 'Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion.' . . . According to one of Maurer and León’s many rich footnotes, Mario Vargas Llosa wrote that Lorca 'had one obsession. Do not bore the audience. He never did.' He does not here. Nor does this beautifully designed volume, which offers the pleasure of ten color illustrations (photographs, manuscript and typescript pages, and several drawings by Lorca) alongside the bilingual texts of both talks and essays by each of the editors. All are full of provocation and delight for poets and readers."

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) is Spain’s best-known and most beloved poet and playwright. José Javier León teaches at the Center of Modern Languages, University of Granada, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including Bolero: El vicio de quererte. Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University. He is editor and translator of Sebastian’s Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, New Letters to a Young Poet by Joan Margarit, and The Complete Perfectionist by Juan Ramón Jiménez, all published by Swan Isle Press.

"Finding Duende presents, in English and Spanish, the most complete and accurate versions so far possible of both “Duende: Play and Theory” (as it is titled here) and an earlier lecture, 'Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion.' . . . According to one of Maurer and León’s many rich footnotes, Mario Vargas Llosa wrote that Lorca 'had one obsession. Do not bore the audience. He never did.' He does not here. Nor does this beautifully designed volume, which offers the pleasure of ten color illustrations (photographs, manuscript and typescript pages, and several drawings by Lorca) alongside the bilingual texts of both talks and essays by each of the editors. All are full of provocation and delight for poets and readers."

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) is Spain’s best-known and most beloved poet and playwright. José Javier León teaches at the Center of Modern Languages, University of Granada, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including Bolero: El vicio de quererte. Christopher Maurer is professor of Spanish at Boston University. He is editor and translator of Sebastian’s Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, New Letters to a Young Poet by Joan Margarit, and The Complete Perfectionist by Juan Ramón Jiménez, all published by Swan Isle Press.

"Finding Duende presents, in English and Spanish, the most complete and accurate versions so far possible of both “Duende: Play and Theory” (as it is titled here) and an earlier lecture, 'Imagination, Inspiration, Evasion.' . . . According to one of Maurer and León’s many rich footnotes, Mario Vargas Llosa wrote that Lorca 'had one obsession. Do not bore the audience. He never did.' He does not here. Nor does this beautifully designed volume, which offers the pleasure of ten color illustrations (photographs, manuscript and typescript pages, and several drawings by Lorca) alongside the bilingual texts of both talks and essays by each of the editors. All are full of provocation and delight for poets and readers."