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Federico García Lorca’s poetry is, in my opinion, some of the most beautiful in the world. In Spanish, his poetry has an extraordinary musicality to it. Indeed, much of his poetry was inspired by gypsy music and other lyric forms. I normally find reading Lorca in translation to be deeply dissatisfying because his musicality is difficult to convey given the diverse and primarily Germanic roots of English. In my translation, I tried my best to honor his sounds, and occasionally shifted some images from more direct translations so that they might better evoke the emotions that I feel they do in the original Spanish.