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| | On "Francisco, I'll Bring You Red Carnations" |
 | | "Francisco, I'll Bring You Red Carnations," one of the finest poems in 7 Years from Somewhere (published simultaneously with Ashes, a collection of new and older poems), honors Francisco Ascaso, another powerful figure in the FAI who died in combat. |
 | | In "Francisco, I'll Bring You Red Carnations" Levine pays homage to his fallen heroes buried in the cemetery of Barcelona, a setting he employs in "Montjuich" and "For the Fallen" and where, with each visit, his anarchist dream to break "the unbreakable walls of the state" is restored. |
 | | Of all his characters, clearly the most recurring and significant are the Spanish Civil War anarchists, primarily Buenaventura Durruti and Francisco Ascaso, whose struggles against an unjust social order Levine honors, if not nobilitates, throughout his work. |
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