To Live is to Love

Religion & Spirituality

Cardenal, Ernesto

Worship & Devotion

Herder and Herder

Golden UFOs: The Indian Poems: Los ovnis de oro: Poemas indios

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

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

"... 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.

The Doubtful Strait / El estrecho dudoso

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."Â —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

... very well translated... Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America." ―BooklistCombining 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 TodayExplore 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 ReviewIn 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.

El Estrecho Dudoso (Spanish Edition)

Poetry

To live is to love

Image Books **

El poeta José Coronel Urtecho había escrito sobre Cántico Cósmico: “Creo que la ciencia y la poesía no se habían encontrado hasta hoy para formar un todo científico-poético. Lo que parece de veras nuevo en nuestra lengua y en toda otra lengua que yo conozca es que en poesía se hable de la ciencia o hable de ciencia en la lengua de la ciencia. Como la Divina comedia, de Dante, Cántico Cósmico, de Cardenal, es un canto de amor”. Hay unos cuantos poemas que después fueron escritos para ser agregados al gran poema Cántico cósmico y estos son los que aquí se publican con el título Versos del pluriverso.

Versos del pluriverso (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones, La Pereza

La Pereza Ediciones

Psalms

Blackburn, Thomas

Christian Books & Bibles

Sheed & Ward Ltd.

In Cuba (A New Directions Book) (English and Spanish Edition)

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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