casida of the dark doves/ casida de las palomas oscuras
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Federico Garcia Lorca was executed in 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, by General Franco’s Fascist guard. Shortly before he was shot he wrote a series poems based on a style of Arabic poetry called a casida. The website Andalus, based out of Tangier, Morocco, has this to say on […]