Hola Clase!!
I've been looking through some of my old books and I came across one of my favorite collection of poetry. Epigramas by Ernesto Cardenal. He is one of my favorite poets and probably the most important living poet in Latin America today. He is from Nicaragua and was at one point a very contraversial figure, as he was(is) a priest and a revolutionary leader during the Sandinista Revolution. He was a leader in the Liberation Theology movement which itself was very contraversial. He is still alive and well in Nicaragua, about five years ago, he won a very prestigous award that celebrated the 100th birthday of the Great Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), an award for the best poet in Latin America.
I had the honor of meeting him once in Nicaragua. I bugged and bugged him, but I finally just waited outside his office to have him sign my book and take a picture with him. I hang that picture above my office still today. Enjoy one of his classic poems:
Al perderte yo a ti tú y yo hemos perdido:
Yo porque tú eras lo que yo más amaba
Y tú porque yo era el que te amaba más.
Pero de nosotros dos tú pierdes más que yo:
Porque yo podré amar a otras como te amaba a ti
Pero a ti no te amarán como te amaba yo.
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