Black Tulips

Black Tulips is a selection from the poetry of Jose Maria Hinojosa, the first English translation of a well-known poet of Spain's famed Generation of '27, which included Lorca, Dalí, Buñuel, Alberti, Aleixandre and Hernandez. His right wing politics caused him to break with the group during the Spanish Republic. He was assassinated by Republican sympathizers in 1936 and his writing disappeared from Spanish culture until the end of the 20th century.


"Black Tulips: The Selected Poems of José María Hinojosa, translated by Mark Statman, is a major literary achievement. Mark Statman has unearthed the poetry of a long-forgotten member of the Generation of ’27—that gathering of poets that included Pedro Salinas, Rafael Alberti, and Federico Garcia Lorca, among others. Thanks to Statman, Hinojosa’s work can now be accorded its proper place among that august group. Statman’s acumen as both poet and translator is evident in every page. The results are translations that are faithful to Hinojosa’s originals while standing as fine English poems in their own right." —Pablo Medina