Thanks to Michael Hogan, whose A Metaphorical Piano and Other Stories has just been published, for pointing me toward this luminous speech.
Thanks to Michael Hogan, whose A Metaphorical Piano and Other Stories has just been published, for pointing me toward this luminous speech.
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Thank you so much for posting this speech, Joseph. "Luminous" is exactly the right word for it. Although Leonard Cohen has been one of my heroes for many years, I never knew what an important influence Federico Garcia Lorca had been on him until a few minutes ago when I listened to that part of the speech.<br /><br />He's right that nobody can imitate Lorca's style–I know,