Pluriverse – New and Selected Poems: 1127 (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Cardenal, Ernesto; Cohen, Jonathan; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811218090 ISBN 13: 9780811218092

Publisher: New Directions, 2009

Synopsis

Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems charts 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). Follow Cardenal’s poetic development across six decades, from the early exteriorismo poems and romantic epigrams of the early 1950s, to the increasingly spiritual and political verse he wrote as priest and activist (including his classic revolutionary documentary poem “Zero Hour”) to the shorter victory and ecology poems, and elegies to fallen Sandinistas, and on 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.”

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About the Authors

Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua. Revolutionary activist, disciple of Thomas Merton, Roman Catholic priest, founder of the contemplative commune Our Lady of Solentiname, ambassador for the Sandinistas, Minister of Culture in post-Somoza Nicaragua, and co-founder of the international cultural center House of Three Worlds, Cardenal, on his eightieth birthday, was given the nation's highest cultural honor, the Order of Rubén Darío, by President Enrique Bolanos in 2005. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.


Jonathan Cohen is the editor and compiler of William Carlos Williams’ By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish,1916–1959 and editor and translator of Ernesto Cardenal’s Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems, both published recently by New Directions.

In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, Ferlinghetti has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811218090
• ISBN 13: 9780811218092
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272