MEMBER BLOG TAG: ernesto cardenal
| 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"... | | | | | | | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:05PM | | | | On The Poetry Of Ernesto Cardenal | Tags: jonathan cohen, ernesto cardenal, poetry, nicaragua
| | | WITH JONATHAN COHEN IN THE LAND OF ERNESTO CARDENAL
Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems, a new book of translations edited by SUNY Stony Brook professor Jonathan Cohen of 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 ) -- was celebrated at that campus on Apri 1, 2009, when Cohen appeared at the Stony Brook Poetry Center.
The book, published by New Directions, effectively follows Cardenal’s poetic development across six decades, from the early Imagist-influenced 'exterioso' poems and romantic epigrams of the early 1950s, to the increasingly political and theologically activist verse he wrote -- including his classic revolutionary documentary poem “Zero Hour.” From there it... | | | | | |
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