This author's year as a poet in New York inspired a collection of that name.
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}