Ernesto Cardenal - Wikipedia
Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977).
Ernesto Cardenal | The Poetry Foundation
Cardenal’s early poems take on love, social criticism, political passion, and the quest for a transcendent spiritual life. Though Cardenal studied to become a priest with Merton in Gethsemani, Kentucky, he finished his studies in Cuernevaca, …
Ernesto Cardenal | Biography & Works | Britannica
Ernesto Cardenal (born January 20, 1925, Granada, Nicaragua—died March 1, 2020, Managua) was a revolutionary Nicaraguan poet and Roman Catholic priest who is considered to be the second most important Nicaraguan poet, after Rubén Darío.
Remembering the revolutionary priest and poet, Ernesto Cardenal ...
Mar 4, 2020 · Probably the most famous image of Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan priest, poet, mystic and revolutionary, who died on March 1, 2020, at the age of 95, came when Pope John Paul II visited Managua...
Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Priest, Poet and Revolutionary, Dies …
Mar 1, 2020 · The Rev. Ernesto Cardenal, one of Latin America’s most admired poets and priests, who defied the Roman Catholic Church in the 1980s by serving in the revolutionary Sandinista government of ...
Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest, dies at 95
Mar 1, 2020 · MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Ernesto Cardenal, the renowned poet and Roman Catholic cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse in Nicaragua and around Latin America, and whose suspension from the priesthood by St. John Paul II lasted over three decades, died Sunday. He was 95.
Ernesto Cardenal, revolutionary Nicaraguan priest and poet, dies …
Mar 2, 2020 · Ernesto Cardenal, the poet and cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse throughout Latin America, died Sunday at a Managua hospital at 95.
Ernesto Cardenal, Marxist poet and priest, 1925-2020 - Financial Times
Mar 6, 2020 · The Nicaraguan poet-priest, a mystic and Marxist revolutionary who has died aged 95, battled the Somoza regime that ruled the country for four decades and was also once an ally of...
Ernesto Cardenal Biography - eNotes.com
Ernesto Cardenal (kahr-day-NAHL) is considered by many to be one of the most significant poets of Central America. Cardenal is a Catholic priest, a Nicaraguan revolutionary, a sculptor, and his...
About Ernesto Cardenal - Academy of American Poets
Ernesto Cardenal is a Catholic priest and Marxist revolutionary from Nicaragua. He is the author of more than thirty-five books, including The Origin of Species and Other Poems (Texas Tech University Press, 2011), Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems (New Directions, 2009), and Cosmic Canticle (Curbstone Books, 2002).