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"Allow me offer a translation for those who claim to be puzzled: When I speak, I do so as a Black pastor, a father, a son of ...
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Highlights include poems by Ernesto Cardenal, Cecilia Vicuna, and Javier Zamora. In Zamora's poignant El Salvador, he expresses: “Tonight, how I wish/ you made it easier to love you, Salvador. Make it ...
Ernesto Cardenal: Nicaraguan poet and priest who railed against autocracy. He was revered as a literary and moral beacon in the Latin American nation. Harrison Smith. Thursday 26 March 2020 19:47 GMT.
The Rev. Ernesto Cardenal, one of Latin America’s most admired poets and priests, who defied the Roman Catholic Church in the 1980s by serving in the revolutionary Sandinista government of ...
The middle section of the novel adopts the hard-boiled style of the “testimonial” poets like Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan leftist and poet (whose own work is openly discussed), ...
Maurice Tomlinson challenged statute in 2015 . The Jamaican Supreme Court on Friday ruled against a gay man who challenged the country’s colonial-era sodomy law.
Ernesto Cardenal. Curbstone Press, $24.95 (490pp) ISBN 978-1-880684-07-8 ``Background radiation allows us to deduce that the universe / is harmoniously curved / like a woman.'' ...
On Feb. 7, 1996, during his second trip to Nicaragua, Pope John Paul II referred to the visit he made in 1983 as a “great dark night.” “I remember the celebration of 13 years ago; it took ...
In 2022, the persecution has reached new heights. In March, Nicaragua declared the apostolic nuncio, Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, persona non grata.It was an odd move considering that Sommertag ...
They wanted to pay tribute to Cortázar, one of the greatest Latin American writers of the 20th century, and provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on Latin American society and culture. Previous ...
Tomás Mac Síomóin, Irish writer, translator, publisher and scientist, has died in Spain. Although he worked principally as a biology lecturer, Mac Síomóin was passionate about the Irish ...