The Doubtful Strait / El Estrecho Dudoso - by Ernesto Cardenal (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A remarkable achievement and an engrossing narrative, the poem is published here in both Spanish and English.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> . . . very well translated . . . Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America. --Booklist</p><p>Combining hsitory with poetry, Cardenal exposes the violence, treachery, injustice, and exploitation that are so much a part of [Central America and Mexico's] past and present. --World Literature Today</p><p>Explore this dense, beautiful poem and you will be rewarded with riches that 'delight and hurt not'. --Nicaragua Update</p><p>. . . a remarkable text. . . . El estrecho dudoso is a masterful and compelling poetic account of early colonial Central America, and the translation is likewise masterful. --Colonial Latin American Historical Review</p><p>In this book-length poem, Nicaraguan priest and revolutionary Ernesto Cardenal tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Central America from the discovery of the American continent to recent historical events. A remarkable achievement and an engrossing narrative, the poem is published here in both Spanish and English.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>ERNESTO CARDENAL is a poet, priest, and revolutionary. His works include Cosmic Canticle, Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems, In Cuba, and Los Ovnis de Oro / Golden UFOs. JOHN LYONS has translated Cardenal's Cosmic Canticles and is the author of a study of Cardenal. TAMARA R. WILLIAMS is Associate Professor of Spanish at Hamilton College. </p>
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