Ernesto Cardenal

The Gospel in Solentiname

Poesía escogida

Oración por Marilyn Monroe y otros poemas

Homenaje a los indios americanos

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal were both poets and priests, wholly committed to a life of spiritual contemplation which was never far from the gritty work that lead them to risk life and reputation in order to raise worldwide consciousness concerning issues of social justice and the abuse of human rights. From the Monastery to the World collects the complete correspondence between these spiritual men and dedicated activists, translated into English for the first time. The letters in this book, written between Merton and Cardenal from 1959–1968, give us fascinating insights into the early spiritual and political awakenings of eventual Sandinista and exponent of liberation theology Ernesto Cardenal, who was then a novice leaving the Trappist Monastery in Kentucky where he first met Merton. While making the long trip home to Nicaragua to build a utopian artist's commune on the Island of Solentiname, Cardenal rubs elbows with some of Latin America's greatest writers and artists of that time. In From the Monastery to the World, Cardenal is still a hungry pupil, years away from becoming the internationally renowned poet–statesman and Nicaraguan Minister of Culture. Here we see the poet and monk Thomas Merton as a wise, patient, and sometimes even humbled mentor, during the years when he was still shaping and collecting the raw materials for such writings as: "The Way of Chuang Tzu", "Raids on the Unspeakable", and "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander". Merton and Cardenal's correspondence grants readers an audience to conversations between two men deeply connected by their vigorous endeavors toward spiritual freedom, voracious intellectual appetites, and artistic exploration despite the cultural differences, language barriers, and geographic distances which divide them.

The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal

From the Monastery to the World

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

The Indian Poems

Golden UFOs

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The most comprehensive selection of poems in English by Latin America's legendary poet-activist, Ernesto Cardenal. "Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems" charts the life-work of the celebrated poet Ernesto Cardenal--"one of the world's major poets" ("Choice") and "the preeminent poet of Central America today" ("Library Journal"). Follow Cardenal's poetic development across six decades, from the early exteriorismo poems and romantic epigrams of the early 1950s, to the increasingly spiritual and political verse he wrote as priest and activist (including his classic revolutionary documentary poem "Zero Hour"), to the shorter victory and ecology poems, and elegies to fallen Sandinistas, and on to the cosmic-mystical-scientific dimensions of his later work. "Here they are--" editor Jonathan Cohen writes in his Introduction, "to gladden your heart and enrich your soul."

New and Selected Poems

Pluriverse

In Solentiname, a remote archipelago in Lake Nicaragua, the people gathered each Sunday to reflect together on the Gospel reading. From recordings of their dialogue, this extraordinary document of faith in the midst of struggle was composed. First published in four volumes, The Gospel in Solentiname was immediately acclaimed as a classic of liberation theology—a radical reading of the good news of Jesus from the perspective of the poor and the oppressed. (It was also banned by the Somoza dictatorship.) Forty years later The Gospel in Solentiname retains its freshness and power. Though times may have changed, the message of Jesus—as heard by these peasants—continues to challenge the rulers of our age and to inspire the poor with the hope of a different world.

Protest achter prikkeldraad. Salmos

Nur der Wind ist derselbe

In der Nacht leuchten die Wörter : frühe Gedichte, Epigramme, Psalmen / mit e. Vorw. von Dorothee Sölle. Aus d. Span. von Anneliese Schwarzer de Ruiz .... Bd. 1

Das poetische Werk

Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems brings together in English translation eight of the longer poems by Nicaragua's impassioned Marxist priest, Ernesto Cardenal, described in the Times Literary Supplement as the outstanding socially committed poet of his generation in Spanish America." His work, like Pablo Neruda's, is unabashedly political; like Ezra Pound's, his poems demonstrate history on an epic scale - but the voice is all his own and speaks from the heart of a land sunk for generations in poverty, oppression, and turmoil. As both activist and contemplative, Cardenal maintained strong ties with the Sandinist guerillas while at the same time living a form of primitive Christianity at his religious settlement of Our Lady of Solentiname on an island in Lake Nicaragua. In late 1977, amid increasing civil violence, the Nicaraguan National Guard utterly destroyed the Solentiname community, and Cardenal fled to neighboring Costa Rica, where he continued his efforts on behalf of the revolutionary movement. With the final collapse of the Somoza dictatorship in 1979, he returned to Nicaragua as his country's new Minister of Culture. Spanning a quarter century, the poemsin Zero Hour constitute a vivid record of continuous struggle against flagrant exploitation and brutal indifference to common humanity. "

Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems

"Poesia cosmica, que es la poesia de un siglo nuevo, poesia para una humanidad en vias de superar los estrechos dogmatismos del excluyente pensamiento occidental. Poesia polifonica que recoge todas las voces, todos los mitos, todos los discursos marginales...Poesia de la totalidad como la quiso Dante y la pretendio Pound."

Cántico cósmico

Bericht von einer Reise

In Kuba

To Live is to Love

Somos polvo de estrellas

Vida y obra de este poeta están íntimamente ligadas. Podemos decir de él que "nada humano es ajeno". Él mismo reconoció que hizo sus primeros versos cuando aún era muy pequeño, pues se sintió inclinado hacia la poesía desde muy niño.

Ernesto Cardenal Para Niños

Noventa en los noventa es una antología que reúne 90 poemas del célebre poeta nicaragüense Ernesto Cardenal en celebración de sus 90 años, con selección y prólogo de Sergio Ramírez. Esta antología se abre con sus poemas tempranos de veinte años publicados en libros como Hora O y cierra con su poesía mística más reciente como Somos polvo de estrellas. Esta visión monumental de la poesía de Cardenal vuelve a ponernos delante de muchos de los temas que ha tratado, pero bajo un criterio amplio y novedoso para homenajear a una de las figuras literarias y políticas más importantes del siglo XX.

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