ABSTRACT
Federico Garcia Lorca's densely poetic lectures are worthy of the same level of intellectual scrutiny that might bring to Maria Zambrano's Claros del bosque or Jose Lezama Lima's Analecta del reloj. The three figures who have been most instrumental in developing the concept of poetic thought in contemporary Spain are Luis Cernuda, Maria Zambrano, and Jose Angel Valente. Cernuda is one of the strongest influences on Valente's earlier work in the 1950s and 1960s, but Zambrano is a more crucial figure for the increasingly mystical poetry of the late 1970s and beyond. Jack Spicer's concept of poetic dictation, developed in After Lorca, bears a family resemblance to Lorca's duende. The Vancouver conference took place in 1965: Spicer would have been aware that the duende had become a cliche in American poetics in the eight years since the publication of After Lorca.
