Doubtful Strait / El Estrecho Dudoso

<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<br /><br />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<br /><br />Explore this dense beautiful poem and you will be rewarded with riches that 'delight and hurt not'. --Nicaragua Update<br /><br />. . . 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<br /><br />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>