Three poems pairing cities with archangels appear in this collection, which includes a poem that evokes a girl "dreaming in the bitter sea" through the refrain "Green, how I want you green.
In one poem from this collection, deep channels likened to "water-oxen" lie in "mountains of magnet," where the condemned speaker's sleepless eyes "look toward a north / of metals and of cliffs / where [his] veinless body / consults decks of frozen cards." A girl who won't drink an Englishman's gin "comes down an amphibious path / of crystals and of laurels" in a poem from this collection, which includes poems describing women's breasts as "bouquets of hyacinths" and "smoky anvils" "moaning round songs" in its seminal translation by (*) Langston Hughes. A discreet "gentleman" leads a woman who claims to be a virgin to the river in this collection's poem "The Faithless Wife." Three poems pairing cities with archangels appear in this collection, which includes a poem that evokes a girl "dreaming in the bitter sea" through the refrain "Green, how I want you green." For 10 points, name this poetry collection that employs the Roma people as a motif, written by Federico García Lorca.
In one poem from this collection, deep channels likened to "water-oxen" lie in "mountains of magnet," where the condemned speaker's sleepless eyes "look toward a north / of metals and of cliffs / where [his] veinless body / consults decks of frozen cards."
Gypsy Ballads [or Romancero gitano]