Federico García Lorca was born in 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain, a small farming village eleven miles west of Granada. A poet, playwright, and theater director, García Lorca began writing sonnets as early as 1918 and continued to do so throughout his life. He was working on a new collection, The Sonnets of Dark Love, when Nationalist forces executed him in August 1936, soon after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint

by Federico García Lorca, translated by Cintia Santana

     Don’t let me lose the wonder
of your eyes, unblinking. Nor your accent
that the lone rose of your breath
rests on my cheek at night.

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