| Cosmic Canticle Contributor(s): Cardenal, Ernesto (Author), Lyons, John (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1880684934 ISBN-13: 9781880684931 Publisher: Curbstone Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: In this epic poem, Cardenal explores Latin American history by relating the evolution of the universe to the development of human understanding. Throughout, Cardenal blends the visible and the invisible, science and poetry, religion and nature, in 43 autonomous yet integrated cantos. "Cosmic Canticle is a towering piece of work, a quite extraordinary achievement."-Harold Pinter "This epic will be compared to Neruda's Canto General. . . . Heady stuff."-"Library Journal" "Ernesto Cardenal is one of the most important poets writing today. He is one of the giants, in the tradition of Neruda and Guillen. And like all those bearers of a truly human truly transforming art, he is deeply political, deeply committed to struggle, and absolutely clear that to be art, rather than ain't, ' the song must be truth to be beauty."-Amiri Baraka "Priest and Nicaraguan revolutionary as well as poet, Cardenal epitomizes what makes literature live in Central America today."-"Booklist" "Like Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning poet from Chile, Cardenal combines politics and poetry while speaking forthrightly about the history of exploitation in the Americas."-"National Catholic Reporter" "This is much more than just another poet's collection of singular verse: Cardenal spent more than 30 years producing this epic, which relates Latin American history to the evolution of human understanding. More than 40 cantos in English are provocative creations."-"The Bookwatch" The towering figure of Latin American poetry, Ernesto Cardenal was born on January 10, 1925, in Granada, Nicaragua. In 1965, he was ordained a priest. He served as Minister of Culture for the Sandinista government from 1979 to1988. He is currently the director of Casa de los Tres Mundos, a cultural organization in Granada, Nicaragua. Cardenal is the author of more than 60 volumes of poetry, essays, and criticism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 861 |
| LCCN: 2011456100 |
| Physical Information: 1.42" H x 5.98" W x 8.6" (1.43 lbs) 490 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this epic poem, Cardenal explores Latin American history by relating the evolution of the universe to the development of human understanding. Throughout, Cardenal blends the visible and the invisible, science and poetry, religion and nature, in 43 autonomous yet integrated cantos. |