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A speaker created by this author wishes for a cloth thrown over them since “dawn will toss fistfuls of ants” with its “scorpion claws.” (15[1])The lines, “a thousand crystal tambourines / struck at the dawn light” are from a poem (15[1])by this author that mentions two friends climbing “high balconies.” This author thinks of a child “who longed to cut his heart open (-5[1])far out at sea” in a poem that begins, (15[1])“I want to sleep the sleep of (*) apples.” A “sad breeze through the olive trees” ends a poem by this author which repeats “I will not see it” in the section “The Spilled Blood.” This author began a poem titled for sleepwalking with the line, “Green, how I want you green.” (10[1])Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (“May-hee-ahss”) dies “at five in the afternoon” in, (-5[1])for 10 points, what Spanish author’s poem “Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter”? (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: Federico García Lorca [or Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca] (The unnamed poem clued in the first and third lines is “Gacela of the Dark Death.”)
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