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Nicaraguan New Time (Paperback)
Ernesto Cardenal; Illustrated by Armando Morales; Translated by Dinah Livingstone
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This collection of Ernesto Cardenal's poems expresses the strength
and vitality of a nation still struggling to survive in the face of
a bitter fight against the US-backed Contras.
..". very well translated... Cardenal merits praise for
presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative
history of the Spanish encounter with Central America."
Booklist
"Combining hsitory with poetry, Cardenal exposes the violence,
treachery, injustice, and exploitation that are so much a part of
Central America and Mexico s] past and present." World Literature
Today
"Explore this dense, beautiful poem and you will be rewarded
with riches that delight and hurt not ." Nicaragua Update
..". a remarkable text.... El estrecho dudoso is a masterful and
compelling poetic account of early colonial Central America, and
the translation is likewise masterful." Colonial Latin American
Historical Review
In this book-length poem, Nicaraguan priest and revolutionary
Ernesto Cardenal tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Central
America from the "discovery" of the American continent to recent
historical events. A remarkable achievement and an engrossing
narrative, the poem is published here in both Spanish and
English."
In 1898 Tahirassawichi went to Washington
"only to speak about religion"
(as he told the American government)
only to preserve the prayers.
And the Capitol did not impress him."
from "Tahirassawichi in Washington"
Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet, priest, and revolutionary,
foresees a new order for humanity. Here in his Indian poems, Father
Cardenal interweaves myth, legend, history, and contemporary
reality to speak to many subjects, including the assaults on the
Iroquois Nation, the political and cultural life of ancient Mexico,
the Ghost Dance movement, the disappearance of the buffalo, U.S.
policy during the Vietnam War, and human rights in Central America.
Each text is rich with history, poetry, and spiritual insight.
This bilingual edition is the only complete collection of Father
Cardenal s Indian poems in either Spanish or English. Cardenal has
checked and approved the translations and the glossary of cultural
and historical referents.
"Of epic proportions... The literal translation conveys the
epigrammic style and didactic, political message.... Of timely
interest." Library Journal
"Priest and Nicaraguan revolutionary as well as poet, Cardenal
epitomizes what makes literature live in Central America today. His
poems are both sonorous and accessible, political and mystical."
Booklist
..". a spectacular work..." Books of the South West
Apocalypse and Other Poems by Nicaragua's revolutionist
poet-priest, Ernesto Cardenal, is the author's second book, the
first of poetry, to be published by New Directions. The editors of
this volume, Robert Pring-Mill and Donald D. Walsh, have chosen a
representative selection of Cardenal's shorter protest poems,
epigrams, religious, and Amerindian verse. Also included are two of
Cardenal's most impressive longer works: the haunting and melodic
elegy, "Coplas on the Death of Merton," and the title poem,
"Apocalypse," in which the theme of an ever-threatening nuclear
holocaust is the core of a modern rendering of the Book of
Revelations. At Our Lady of Solentiname, his religious community on
an island in Lake Nicaragua, living and working in the manner of
the early Christians, Father Cardenal embodies what he professes:
"Now in Latin America, to practice religion is to make revolution."
An informative introduction has been contributed by Robert
Pring-Mill of Oxford University. The translations are by Thomas
Merton, Robert Pring-Mill, Kenneth Rexroth and Mireya
Jaimes-Freyre, and Donald D. Walsh, who also translated In Cuba,
Cardenal's assessment of Fidel Castro's revolutionary society,
published by New Directions in 1974.
El poeta Jose Coronel Urtecho habia escrito sobre Cantico Cosmico:
"Creo que la ciencia y la poesia no se habian encontrado hasta hoy
para formar un todo cientifico-poetico. Lo que parece de veras
nuevo en nuestra lengua y en toda otra lengua que yo conozca es que
en poesia se hable de la ciencia o hable de ciencia en la lengua de
la ciencia. Como la Divina comedia, de Dante, Cantico Cosmico, de
Cardenal, es un canto de amor." Hay unos cuantos poemas que despues
fueron escritos para ser agregados al gran poema Cantico cosmico y
estos son los que aqui se publican con el titulo Versos del
pluriverso.
Cardenal, In Cuba. The Nicaraguan Poet-Priest muses over Cuba
Cardenal, In Cuba. The Nicaraguan Poet-Priest muses over Cuba
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