Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Cohen, Jonathan and Cardenal, Ernesto
- Abstract:
- The Cohen, Jonathan mss., 1977-1986, consist of correspondence, notes, and translated manuscripts related to Jonathan Cohen's translation of Ernesto Cardenal's work.
- Extent:
- 1 linear feet
- Language:
- English , Spanish; Castilian .
- Preferred citation:
[Item], Cohen, Jonathan mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
Jonathan Cohen is a poet, translator, and scholar of Latin American and inter-American literature. Cohen's translations include works by Ernesto Cardenal and William Carlos Williams.
Ernesto Cardenal, 1925-2020, was a Nicaraguan poet-priest and politician who founded a primitivist artists' colony in the Solentiname Islands in 1965.
- Scope and Content:
The collection consists of correspondence to Cohen from Cardenal, a translated manuscript returned with annotation and clarifications by Cardenal, an edited collection by Cohen, and Cohen's translation of Cardenal's From Nicaragua with Love (City Lights, 1987).
- Acquisition information:
- Gift: 2018
- Arrangement:
The collection is arranged following original order.
- Physical location:
- Missing
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Literature--translating
- Places:
- Nicaragua -- Literatures
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is open for research.
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- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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- PREFERRED CITATION:
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[Item], Cohen, Jonathan mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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1200 East Seventh StreetBloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- CONTACT:
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(812) 855-2452liblilly@indiana.edu