Liu, Yvonne (yl28172@imcnam.sbi.com)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:39:38 -0400
Saturday, 3rd October 1998
DJ Nickodemus is throwing a party,
With Nat and Mammal in an artists' space.
( Details will be further confirmed. )
Long Island City, New York
Call 212 560 5593 for information.
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I became politicized by the contemplative life.
Meditation is what brought me to political radicalization.
I came to the revolution by way of the Gospels.
It was not by reading Marx but Christ.
It can be said that the Gospels made me a Marxist.
-- Ernesto Cardenal (1976)
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IN XOCHITL IN CUICATL, Nahuatl for poetry.
Literally it means Flower Song,
or flowers and songs;
a double metaphor to name poetry,
which is essentially a metaphor.
OMETEOTL (OME, two, TEOTL, god):
"Two Gods," or "Two-God" was the Supreme Being,
conceived as the Masculine-Feminine principle.
And poetry was the manifestation of God
on earth and a means to reach Him/Her,
the Supreme Metaphor, the Supreme Poetry ...
... Poets: give up the pulque of war !
by Ernesto Cardenal (b. 1925)
Translation from the Spanish by Carlos & Monique Altschul.
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