The Parrots

Ernesto Cardenal is a Nicaraguan poet, liberation theologian, and Catholic priest. He was a nominee for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature and was Nicaragua’s Minister of Culture for nearly a decade. (updated 7/2010)

“Interview with Ernesto Cardenal” conducted by Mary Morris and Richard Falk and translated by Jonathan Cohen appeared in AGNI 23.

Jonathan Cohen is now finishing a new book of poetry titled “After Crossing the Ohio.” His latest verse-translation, From Nicaragua, With Love: Poems 1979-1986 by Earnesto Cardenal, has just been published by City Lights. (1987)

AGNI has published the following translations:

Interview with Ernesto Cardenal by Richard Falk and Mary Morris
At the Tomb of the Guerilla by Ernesto Cardenal
Founding of the Latin American Association for Human Rights by Ernesto Cardenal
New Ecology by Ernesto Cardenal
The Parrots by Ernesto Cardenal
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window by Ernesto Cardenal