George Wallace's Blog
| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:05PM | | | | On The Poetry Of Ernesto Cardenal | Posted By: George Wallace
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| 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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