Research Catalog

Title

Pluriverse : new and selected poems / Ernesto Cardenal ; edited by Jonathan Cohen ; with a foreword by Lawrence Ferlinghetti translations from the Spanish by Jonathan Cohen [and others].

Author

Cardenal, Ernesto

Publication

New York : New Directions Pub., 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cohen, Jonathan, 1949 May 4-
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Description

xxii, 249 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems is the most extensive compilation of poems in English by Ernesto Cardenal. Follow Cardenal's poetic development across six decades, from the early exterioristno poems and romantic epigrams of the early 1950s, to the increasingly spiritually and politically engaged verse he wrote as priest and activist - including his classic revolutionary documentary poem "Zero Hour"--To the shorter victory and ecology poems and the elegies to fallen Sandinistas, 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.""--Jacket.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; 1127

Uniform Title

New Directions paperbook 1127.

Subject

• Cardenal, Ernesto > Translations into English
• Cardenal, Ernesto > Translations
• Cardenal, Ernesto
• Poetry
• Spanish poetry > Translations
• Poésie
• Poésie espagnole > Traductions
• poetry
• Spanish poetry

Genre/Form

• Translations
• Translations into English.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Introduction: Songs of heaven and earth. Zero Hour, 1949-1959. Leon -- Raleigh -- With Walker in Nicaragua -- The filibusters -- Jose Dolores Estrada -- Squier in Nicaragua -- Above the rain-soaked track -- Epigrams -- Zero hour -- Gethsemani, Ky. -- the vale of Cuernavaca from the monastery on Lake Nicaragua. Apocalypse, 1960-1969. Managua 6:30 p.m. -- NNW -- Give ear to my words (Psalm 5) -- Lords defendes of law and order (Psalm 57) -- The cosmos in his sanctuary (Psalm 150) -- "The most economical Caribbean paradises ..." -- Unrighteous mammon (Luke 16:19) -- Prayer for Marilyn Monroe -- Apocalypse -- Katun II Ahau -- Recordings of the sacred pipe -- The lost cities -- In the half-light -- Coplas on the death of Merton. Lights, 1970-1985. Nicaraguan canto -- Mosquito kingdom -- Trip to New York -- The arrival -- Lights -- Vision from the blue plane-window -- New ecology -- The parrots -- Visit to Weimar (GDR) -- Among facades -- Room 5600 -- At the grave of a guerrilla. Pluriverse, 1986-2005). The word -- Pluriverse -- 3-pound universe -- Telescope in the dark night -- Stardust.

ISBN

• 9780811218092
• 0811218090

LCCN

2008040582

OCLC

• 227016577
• SCSB-12326714

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library