Alfredo Cordal’s poem has the speaker bark with his dog, recalling mothers in Latin America and Kurdistan whose dogs bark to keep alive hope that their disappeared sons will return.
Alfredo Cordal on Lorca and the duende, the ‘spirit of the Earth’, tracing Lorca’s poetry, Arab roots, bullfighting as sacrificial rite, love and death, and his own play linking Lorca and Neruda.
