The Washington Post, October 14th, 2001
Federico Garcia Lorca wrote the following poem shortly before he was dragged from his home in Granada and executed by General Franco's fascist supporters in 1937. A casida is a short fixed verse form in Arabic poetry; vestiges of Garcia Lorca's rhyme scheme in Spanish can be found in the repetition of key words: I have shut my balcony because I do not want to hear the weeping, but from behind the grey walls nothing else is heard but the weeping. There are very few angels that sing, there are very few dogs that bark, a thousand violins fit into the palm of my hand. But the weeping is an immens...
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