Lorca In Vermont

Patricia A. Billingsley is an independent researcher

and biographer with a special interest in poets and

writers of the early twentieth century. Originally based

in western Massachusetts, she maintains close ties to

the Vermont region where Lorca and Cummings created

their own private Eden in August 1929. Lorca in Vermont tells the story of two young lovers with mismatched goals

and expectations: Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, already well established

in his career, who sought a sustained romantic relationship with

another man, and Philip Cummings, a new college graduate eight years

his junior with no interest in long-term commitment or in challenging

social conventions. Based on over a decade of research, Lorca in Vermont

explores the full course of Lorca’s relationship with Cummings, an affair

that spanned three years and two continents.