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| Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:59PM | | | | ERNESTO CARDENAL CENSORED @ PEN??? | Tags: WRITER's IMAGINATION V. GLOBAL CORPORATE OLIGARCHY, Free Speech?, ERNESTO CARDENAL & Pablo Neruda's V. Solipsistic Abstraction. Planetary Citizenship, Death of Democracies, Anemic Writing re. climate change, earth quakes, nuclear disasters, slave labor....
| | | | Was Ernesto Cardenal Censored at PEN's World Voices Poetry Evening titled: The Second Skin? Was it censorship in the guise of "Art for Art's Sake?" I heard Cardenal read a vital poem, "Cell Phone," at Poets House in the afternoon. He intended to read it at PEN, Friday evening. I was told by those traveling with him, that it was cut from his intended program by the directors of the poetry event. Why?
I was shocked that the PEN poetry event directors seemed to censor Ernesto Cardenal's vital poem, "Cell Phone." It's in Cardenal's latest book--no doubt one of the greatest poetry books of the 20 or 21st Centuries, titled The Origin of the Species, after Darwin's treatise, and translated by John Lyons. "Cell Phone"... | | | | | |
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