Years ago I bought a book called Good Reading and to educate myself decided to make my way through the list of "100 Significant Books." I noted that of the 20 poets listed, only one, Emily Dickenson, was a woman. That made picking up this particular anthology of women poets irresistible. I found rea...
I can't really connect to these poems. They just seem dull to me. Maybe it's the translation, but I find nothing special about them. Hills and roads and landscapes. Lorca could take the same things and make them magical. With Machado they're just hills and roads and landscapes.That's the principle p...