Research Catalog

Title

The origin of species and other poems / Ernesto Cardenal ; translated and introduced by John Lyons ; foreword by Anne Waldman.

Author

Cardenal, Ernesto

Publication

Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2011.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Lyons, John

Description

xxiii, 141 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Along with its title poem, a meditation on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, this volume by Latin American poet Ernesto Cardenal includes twenty new poems--some appearing for the first time in English and some previously unpublished--and new cantos supplementing Cosmic Canticle"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

The Americas series

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections. English
• Americas (Lubbock, Tex.)

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Cardenal, Ernesto > Translations into English
• Poets, Nicaraguan
• Poetry > Nicaragua

Genre/Form

• Translations
• Translations.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: The Origin of Species -- Manaus Resurrected -- Elegy for Cristina Downing -- Theory of Language -- Manaus Revisited -- Reflections on the River Grijalva -- Iquitos Zoo -- The White Goddess -- With the Lapps -- Tata Vasco -- In the Sea of Cortez -- Solentiname Notes -- White Holes -- The Caves -- Ecce Homo -- Gazing at the Stars with Marti -- At Delphos -- Passenger in Transit in Santo Domingo -- Destiny of an Insect -- Cell Phone -- Vision in Grand Canary -- In Malta -- Visit to Germany (1973) -- Rally in Grenada -- Tourist in Ararat -- Reflections of a Minister -- The Eagle -- Snap of Segovia -- European Postcards -- On the Banks of the Ohio in Kentucky -- Traveling on a Bus through the United States -- The Place Called "Harmony" -- Apalka.

ISBN

• 9780896726895 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0896726894 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011000797

OCLC

696321916

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library