Flights of Victory Vuelos de Victoria Author:Ernesto Cardenal Editor Zimmerman is aiming at "presenting a complete picture of Cardenal's poetic development during the years of Nicaragua's insurrection and reconstruction". Cardenal's work (as in With Walker in Nicaragua and Other Early Poems, 1949-1954, LJ 11/1/84) has always focused on the "democratization of culture",... more » and in these recent poems we continue to see his love of people, language, and country. The language here is clear, concrete, reflecting Cardenal's belief that if placed at the center of life rather than at the peripheries of it, poetry can make things happen:« less