Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems

by Ernesto Cardenal

Book Overview

Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems brings together in English translation eight of the longer poems by Nicaragua's impassioned Marxist priest, Ernesto Cardenal, described in the Times Literary Supplement as "the outstanding socially committed poet of his generation in Spanish America." His work, like Pablo Neruda's, is unabashedly political; like Ezra Pound's, his poems demonstrate history on an epic scale--but the voice is all his own and speaks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811207676
• ISBN13: 9780811207676
• Release Date: November 1980
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"