Frederico Garc a lived in Manhattan from 1929 to 1930, and the poetry he wrote about the city, Poet in New York, was posthumously published in 1940. Eighty years after Lorca s sojourn to America, Nathalie Handal, a poet from New York, went to Spain to write Poet in Andaluc a. Handal recreated Lorca s journey in reverse.