Pluriverse by Ernesto Cardenal and translated by Jonathan Cohen

This is poetry from Nicaragua.

Pluriverse by Ernesto Cardenal translated by Jonathan Cohen is published by New Directions Pub.. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811218092E12.

Ernesto Cardenal’s Pluriverse, translated by Jonathan Cohen, is almost exactly titled for the scale of Cardenal’s imagination. Universe would be too simple. Pluriverse suggests multiplicity, coexistence, spiritual matter, and political worldliness held together without being smoothed into one system. Cardenal’s poetry often moves between revolutionary history, mystical attention, and scientific wonder, and this New Directions volume gives that range a durable English-language form. Cohen’s translation has to make room for breadth without letting the poems become vague. I would read this book as a large-minded companion for anyone interested in poetry that refuses the smallness of purely private lyric. It is cosmic, yes, but also grounded in struggle, witness, and the ongoing human desire to belong to something larger than empire.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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