Ernesto Cardenal’s poem in which reading Nicaraguan economic figures after the Revolution becomes an act of love, as wealth is to be shared by everyone.
Extracts from Ernesto Cardenal’s Cosmic Canticle in which the universe is a harmonious music of rhythm and matter, and humans are stars and planet becoming conscious of themselves.
Ernesto Cardenal’s poem, in translation, reads Novalis’s line about touching a naked body as heaven: human touch and love make the kingdom of heaven and communism. Notes accompany it on Rome’s suspension of Sandinista priests.
A poem by Ernesto Cardenal, translated by Dinah Livingstone, in which economic statistics become expressions of love once a nation’s wealth is shared with everyone after the Nicaraguan Revolution.
Dinah Livingstone describes Ernesto Cardenal’s poem Quetzalcoatl, in which the Toltec god-king, who forbids human sacrifice, becomes the Morning Star and a figure of liberation and the ‘historicity of myth’.
Ernesto Cardenal’s message to the 2006 PEN Congress in Berlin denounces US war-making, Guantánamo and secret prisons, accuses the churches of silence, and calls for peace and justice through humanism.
Daisy Zamora’s poem takes Novalis’s phrase about touching a naked body as touching heaven to mean that human touch is heaven, the kingdom, and communism, set in Nicaragua after the revolution.
Ernesto Cardenal’s poem describes a Nicaraguan cabinet meeting on a mosquito epidemic and sees in the ministers’ concern for their neighbours an act of love.
