Ernesto Cardenal Biography

Ernesto Cardenal biography

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NAME: Ernesto Cardenal
OCCUPATION: Activist, Priest, Poet
BIRTH DATE: January 20, 1925 (Age: 88)
EDUCATION: Columbia University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Granada, Nicaragua
ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius

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Ernesto Cardenal is a revolutionary Nicaraguan poet and Roman Catholic priest who is considered the second most important Nicaraguan poet, after Rubén Darío.

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Ernesto Cardinal’s early poems denounce the senseless violence of the Somoza regime in Nicaragua. The poems in Salmos (The Psalms of Struggle and Liberation) represent Cardenal's rewriting of the biblical psalms of David and condemn modern-day evils. In Oración por Marilyn Monroe y otros poemas (Marilyn Monroe, and Other Poems), the earlier prophetic tone is linked to contemporary events.