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In 1898 Tahirassawichi went to Washington
"only to speak about religion"
(as he told the American government)
only to preserve the prayers.
And the Capitol did not impress him."
--from "Tahirassawichi in Washington"

Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet, priest, and revolutionary, foresees a new order for humanity. Here in his Indian poems, Father Cardenal interweaves myth, legend, history, and contemporary reality to speak to many subjects, including the assaults on the Iroquois Nation, the political and cultural life of ancient Mexico, the Ghost Dance movement, the disappearance of the buffalo, U.S. policy during the Vietnam War, and human rights in Central America. Each text is rich with history, poetry, and spiritual insight.

This bilingual edition is the only complete collection of Father Cardenal's Indian poems in either Spanish or English. Cardenal has checked and approved the translations and the glossary of cultural and historical referents.

"Of epic proportions... The literal translation conveys the epigrammic style and didactic, political message.... Of timely interest."nbsp;--Library Journal

"Priest and Nicaraguan revolutionary as well as poet, Cardenal epitomizes what makes literature live in Central America today. His poems are both sonorous and accessible, political and mystical." --Booklist

"... a spectacular work..." --Books of the South West

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• Introduction
• Los Ovnis Do Oro
• Golden Ufos
• Nele Kantule
• Nele Of Kantule
• Entrevista Con El Cacique Yabiliguina
• Interview With Cacique Yabiliguina
• La Tierra Que Dios Nos Entrego
• The Land God Gave Us
• Sierra Nevada
• Sierra Nevada
• Los Yaruros
• The Yaruros
• La Arcadia Peridida
• Lost Arcadia
• Los Hijos Del Bosque De Las Palabras-Almas
• The Sons Of The Forest Of The Words-Souls
• Kayanerenhkowa
• Kayanerenhkowa
• Tahirassawichi En Washington
• Tahirassawichi In Washington
• Marchas Pawnees
• Pawnee Marches
• La Danza Del Espiritu
• The Ghost Dance
• Grabaciones De La Pipa Sagrada
• The Sacred Pipe Recordings
• Cantares Mexicanos I Ii Iii Iv V Vi Vii
• Mexican Songs I Ii Iii Iv V Vi Vii
• Nezahualcoyotl
• Nezahualcoyatl
• Los Tlamatinimes
• The Tlamatinimes
• In Xochitl In Cuicatl
• In Xochitl In Cuicatl
• Quetzalcoatl
• Zuetzalcoatl
• La Nina Nahuatl
• The Nahuatl Girl
• Milpa
• Milpa
• La Carretera
• Causeway
• Bajo El Comal Negro
• Under The Black Comal
• Las Ciudades Perdidas
• Lost Cities
• Mayapan
• Mayapan
• Katun 11 Ahau
• Katun 11 Ahau
• 8 Ahau
• 8 Ahau
• Ardilla De Los Tunes De Un Katun
• Squirrel Of The Tuns Of A Katun
• Oraculos De Tikal (De Un Ah Kin De Ku)
• Oracles Of Tikal (From An Ah Kin Of Ku)
• Economia De Tahuantinsuyu
• The Economy Of Ahuantinsuyu
• El Secreto De Machu-Picchu
• The Secret Of Machu Picchu
• Glossary

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Booklist Review

Priest and Nicaraguan revolutionary as well as poet, Cardenal epitomizes what makes literature live in Central America today. His poems are both sonorous and accessible, political and mystical. This long, bilingual volume gathers together his poems on indigenous Americans. In them, a sometimes romantic vision of savage nobility is tempered by astute observation of the ways in which politics and economics interact to the detriment of the people. This book should have a wider readership than most poetic works, for it appeals to ecological and spiritual as well as political values. (Reviewed Apr. 1, 1992)0253313023Pat Monaghan

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An ordained priest who lives in Solentiname, a community that he founded, and a member of the Nicaraguan cabinet, Ernesto Cardenal is Latin America's best known exponent of what might be called the literature of the theology of liberation. His poetry is the expression of tension between his faith and a strongly rooted sense of reality and the need for drastic change.

Influenced heavily by Thomas Merton, by his residence in the Trappist community of Gethsemane, Kentucky, by English and American poetry, Christianity, and the fact of social injustice, Cardenal consciously writes antirhetorical and often didactic poetry. Frequently, he uses other sources: newspapers, Native American texts, and so on, just as the masses at Solentiname use nontraditional sources as subjects for discussion. Zero Hour (1980) details the existence of tyranny in America; the Psalms (1981) are a rewriting of the biblical Psalms of David for a modern world. The Gospel in Solentiname (1982) is a collection of dialogues or commentaries on the Gospels.

Cardenal served as minister of culture in the government organized after the 1979 ouster of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua.

Ernesto Cardenal died on March 1, 2020 at the age of 95.

(Bowker Author Biography)