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En lucha. Ernesto Cardenal: Minister of Culture, Nicaragua, Poet / Priest.

1983

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The Spanish original of Ernesto Cardenal's poem and the English translation read as follows:
A ERNESTO CASTILLO MI SOBRINO Recuerdo Ernesto cuando volviste de tu entrenamiento y hablabas de armas "lindísimas" que habias aprendido a manejar "es linda, mamá," le decías a tu mamá, como quien habla de la belleza de una muchacha. Después una bala de francotirador te dió en la cara cuando saltabas a la calle en León gritando, para animar a los de tu escuadra que te seguían. ¡PATRIA LIBRE O MORIR! Poeta caído a los 20 años. Estoy pensando en este Ernesto ahora que los niños son besados por los soldados y hay un taller de poesía en la Policía y el ejército de Alfabetización con su uniforme azul y gris está regado por todo el país, y hay Reforma Agraria y los niños vendeperiódicos y limpiabotas son llevados a jugar y . . . bueno, de verdad que fueron lindísimas esas armas (y recuerdo el brillo de tus ojos cuando lo decías.)
FOR ERNESTO CASTILLO, MY NEPHEW I remember Ernesto when you came back from drill and were talking of the "prettiest" weapons you'd learned to handle "so pretty, mama," you told your mother, like someone talking about a girl. Later a direct hit caught you in the face when you took a street in Leon shouting to inspire the squad following you. A FREE COUNTRY OR DEATH! A poet fallen, 20 years old. I'm thinking of that Ernesto Now that kids are kissed by soldiers and there's a poetry workshop for the Police and the Literacy Army with its grey and blue uniforms is scattered throughout the land, and there's Agrarian Reform and the newsboys and bootblacks can have some fun and . . . well, really those weapons were the prettiest (and I remember the sparkle in your eyes when you said it.)
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Creator of work
Ernesto Cardenal and Juan R. Fuentes
Language
Spanish
English
Geographic Origin
Nicaragua
Geographic Subject
Nicaragua
Subject
Arts and culture
Artists
Literature
Politics and culture
Politics and government
Revolutionaries
Religion
Catholic Church
Religion and politics
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