Cosmic Canticle

a poetic work by Ernesto Cardenal

translated by John Lyons

 

Written over a thirty year period, Cosmic Canticle is the crowning

achievement of Ernesto Cardenal, one of the towering international figures

in 20th-century poetry. To try to define Cosmic Canticle‹narrative poem,

mythic song, epic‹is to diminish its originality. Cardenal does no less than

explore Latin American history by relating the evolution of the universe to

the development of human understanding. Throughout, Cardenal blends the

visible and invisible, science and poetry, the individual and society,

religion and nature, in forty-three autonomous yet integrated cantos.

 

 

"Cosmic Canticle is a towering piece of work, a quite extraordinary

achievement." --Harold Pinter

 

 

"Ernesto Cardenal is one of the most important poets writing today. He is

one of the giants, in the tradition of Neruda and Guillen."  --Amiri Baraka

 

 

$24.95 cloth    ISBN 1-880684-07-1    492pp

Published by Curbstone Press

Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution

 

 

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