Cosmic Canticle
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1880684934 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 490 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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An Unforgettable Dazzling Experience dan noyes Cosmic Canticle reaches for the stars in its poetic vision. It is huge, warm, shattering, healing, encyclopedic, a chronicle of exploitation and a hymn to the Divine. Somehow Cardenal weaves these together into a vast cosmic tapestry. It is no accident that it is written by a. A huge effort,about half on target A. Hogan Ernesto Cardenal is a tough call. former miinster of culture in the sandinista government,one time Trappist novice,former pacifist who took to the hills to fight the somoza government, then returned in triumph. Infamous for the incident at the Managua airport where the pope w. A cosmological love poem with Latin American politics. In A cosmological love poem with Latin American politics. A Customer In 474 pages, Ernesto Cardenal weaves a stunning, interconnected parallel between the politics of Latin America, "astrophysics and love" (125). His voice and style at times reminds me of Pound in _The Cantos_, "(Everything I write is fragmentary/ a collection of quanta)" (Car. 7A cosmological love poem with Latin American politics. A Customer In 474 pages, Ernesto Cardenal weaves a stunning, interconnected parallel between the politics of Latin America, "astrophysics and love" (125). His voice and style at times reminds me of Pound in _The Cantos_, "(Everything I write is fragmentary/ a collection of quanta)" (Car. pages, Ernesto Cardenal weaves a stunning, interconnected parallel between the politics of Latin America, "astrophysics and love" (125). His voice and style at times reminds me of Pound in _The Cantos_, "(Everything I write is fragmentary/ a collection of quanta)" (Car
. The theology--largely homage to the Earth-goddess--seems literary, perhaps derived from Robert Graves. / The loneliness we suffer comes from being only individuals. This is not a wholly credible synthesis of religious feeling and political engagement on the order of Milton or Blake, but instead the work of an amiable popularizer, seeking--yet not always reaching--the force of authentic prophecy or discovery: "Man is society. The text, as translator Lyons has rendered it, suggests the lecture outline of an eclectic, New Age professor. From Publishers Weekly "Background radiation allows us to deduce that the universe / is harmoniously curved / like a woman." This nearly 500-page poem of Father Cardenal, a priest who was Nicaragua's Minister of Culture during the Sandinistas' years in power, superficially recalls Genesis and som
In this epic poem, Cardenal explores Latin American history by relating the evolution of the universe to the development of human understanding. Throughout, Cardenal blends the visible and the invisible, science and poetry, religion and nature, in 43 autonomous yet integrated cantos.