A Subversive Question
The Military Police have told you that all The Church should worry about is “souls” But what about the children starved by corporations? –Ernesto Cardenal, Epistle to Monsignor Casaldáliga
Tag: Ernesto Cardenal
Crucifixion & Resurrection
1. All that could happen to one who joined: Imprisoned, hooded, beaten, castrated, eyes pulled out, Buried alive, burned alive. 2. When I saw the disinterred bones of the two of you I remembered you…
The Path
I came to the revolution by way of the gospels. It was not by reading Marx but Christ. It can be said that the Gospels made me a Marxist…. –Ernesto Cardenal
Manifesto
Exteriorismo is a poetry created with images of the exterior world, the world we see and sense, and that is, in general, the specific world of poetry. Exteriorismo is objective poetry: narrative and anecdote, made…
Poem of the Day: Epigram #11 by Ernesto Cardenal
I’ve handed out underground leaflets, Shouting Long Live Freedom! in the middle of the street Defying the armed guards. I took part in the April Rebellion: But I grow pale when I pass by your…
Fifteen Iraqi Poets
So we need poets to challenge received notions, tell us what we don’t know, ask the questions we can’t answer, and wake us up to both doom and Utopia. — Translator and essayist Eliot Weinberger…
Books
My father had an Appalachian education That went through sixth grade I went after and got a BA, MA And a PhD I doubt my father Ever finished reading a book (I once asked him…
So Be It
Bella Levenshteyn After I sent you the Cardenal poem About bloody coltan cell phones You asked me what I think you should do Now that’s easy: Share your light
Subversives
In the New Directions collection, Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems, Ernesto Cardenal includes an “Epistle to Monsignor Casaldáliga (whom Mev Puleo interviewed in her book The Struggle is One, and from which I quoted…
July 19
“By Final Judgment of the world you should understand The destruction of injustice on earth And the reign of the Spirit of Light and Truth, that’s to say Love.” – Augusto Cesar Sandino (via Ernesto…