rd of living would be improved, its lliteracy reduced and its culture more widelydisseminated. Lorca became director of a student theater company which toured smallvillages and in the face of harassment by Fascist partisans presented the Spanish classics tothe peasants. His first great play, the rural tragedy Blood Wedding, was staged in 1933. It wasimmensely popular in Spain and in Argentina which he visited late that year. In 1935 hepresented his second village tragedy, Yerma, and completed his third, La Casa deBernardo Alba. Lorca spent much of early 1936 preparing Divan Del Tamarit, a cycle of poems written intribute to Granada's old Arab poets whom he had read in translation. In July, shortly afterthe outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he went to vacation in Granada which had fallen tothe fascists on the first day of the conflict. Although he had no political affiliations Lorca was known to be a friend of left-wingintellectuals and an advocate of liberty. Apparently this was enough of an indictment forthose Falangists who arrested him on August 16th. On or about August 18, 1936 FedericoGarcia Lorca, along with a white-haired schoolmaster and two anarchist bullfighters, wasdriven to the village of Viznar at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There at dawnthey were executed by a right-wing firing squad. Although his remains are presumed to liewith those of hundreds of fellow victims in a shallow trench among the grove of olivetrees adjacent to the Fuente Grande spring, the actual whereabouts of Lorca's grave areunknown to this day. I Feel EverythingI feel everything,But expressing itComes painfully slowly--Like trying toUndress a statueWith my bare fingers.How many years?How many tears?How much frustration?How much insanity?And then, how muchIs finally said? Nothing, really--Truths only hinted atWhile, far below,Essence lies dead. Like the black manWho carved into woodThe story of howHe was almost lynched.Then he said: 'that sh...
