This author's year as a poet in New York inspired a collection of that name. He referred to his eventual assassins as having "patent-leather souls" and "leaden skulls" in his "Ballad of the Civil Guard". He evokes such images as a rapist wind and a dead boy on an anvil who stared lovingly at the moon for too long in his Gypsy Ballads.  He is famous for his "Rural Trilogy", which includes "Blood Wedding" and a play about a barren wife who obsesses over motherhood and murders her husband, entitled Yerma. For 10 points, name this Spanish author and playwright who was killed in 1936, famous for hi
This author's year as a poet in New York inspired a collection of that name. He referred to his eventual assassins as having "patent-leather souls" and "leaden skulls" in his "Ballad of the Civil Guard". He evokes such images as a rapist wind and a dead boy on an anvil who stared lovingly at the moon for too long in his Gypsy Ballads.  He is famous for his "Rural Trilogy", which includes "Blood Wedding" and a play about a barren wife who obsesses over motherhood and murders her husband, entitled Yerma. For 10 points, name this Spanish author and playwright who was killed in 1936, famous for his all-female play The House of Bernarda Alba.
This author's year as a poet in New York inspired a collection of that name.
Federico García {Lorca}