{"product_id":"the-doubtful-strait-el-estrecho-dudoso-paperback-1","title":"The Doubtful Strait \/ El Estrecho Dudoso - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErnesto Cardenal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" . . . 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Explore this dense, beautiful poem and you will be rewarded with riches that 'delight and hurt not'.\" --Nicaragua Update\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eERNESTO 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 22, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42135030661255,"sku":"9780253209030","price":39.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/70b4a2ccbc2eb290871a03c158e966ba_29d56c5d-cc27-4805-a55e-e1a1d71a19a9.webp?v=1732646451","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-doubtful-strait-el-estrecho-dudoso-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}