during this time, collected in the book "Poet in New York," portray panic and urban decay, as well as the racial tensions of the still highly-segregated city, reflected in poems like "The King of Harlem" and "Landscape of a Vomiting Multitude." Lorca's "Poems of Solitude at Columbia University" speak to his isolation within this fallen landscape.Lorca did have one intimate acquaintance in the Northeast, though. In August 1929, Lorca took a train to Montpelier, and from there he traveled to Lake Eden, where he stayed for 10 days at the family cottage of a former classmate, the poet Philip Cummings.
from Burlington Free Press: Lorca in Eden: A celebrated Spanish poet's time in Vermont subject of new play
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