Ernesto Cardenal

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Ernesto Cardenal


Born
in Granada, Nicaragua
January 20, 1925

Died
March 01, 2020

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Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977). A former member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas (he left the party in the early 1990s), he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987.

His earlier poems focused on life and love. However, some works, such as "Zero Hour," had a direct correlation to his Marxist political ideas, being tied to the assassination of guerrilla leader Augusto César Sandino. Cardenal's poetry also was heavily influenced by his unique Catholic ideology, mainly liberation theology. Some of his later works
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Cosmic Canticle

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Zero hour and other documen...

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Apocalypse and Other Poems

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Salmos

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The Doubtful Strait / El es...

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Vida en el amor

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“Esta sera mi venganza:
Que un dia llegue a tus manos el libro de un poeta famoso
y leas estas lineas que el autor escribio para ti
y tu no lo sepas!”
Ernesto Cardenal

“Al perderte...

Al perderte yo a ti
Tu y yo hemos perdido:
Yo por que tú eras
Lo que yo más amaba
Y tú por que yo era
El que te amaba más.
Pero de nosotros dos
Tú pierdes más que yo:
Porque yo podré amar a otros
Como te amaba a ti,
Pero a ti no te amarán
Como te amaba yo.”
Ernesto Cardenal

“... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.

Ernesto Cardenal, Zero hour and other documentary poems

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