“Dear Pepe: I have been to see you and I think I will return tomorrow.” In early July 1936, less than a month before his execution, Spanish poet Federico García Lorca wrote this message on stationery bearing the letterhead of the magazine and publishing house Cruz y Raya. The note was addressed to its editor, José Bergamín, and was placed on top of the manuscript of Poet in New York, which served as the basis for the book’s first two posthumous editions (published in New York and Mexico in 1940) and, many years later, for the first critical edition (Barcelona, 2013), after the manuscript was recovered.
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