| Creator: | Cohen, Jonathan |
| Creator: | Cardenal, Ernesto |
| Title: | Cohen, Jonathan mss. |
| Collection No.: | LMC 2942 |
| Dates: | 1977-1986 |
| Quantity: | Quantity: 1 linear feet |
| 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. |
| Location: | Missing |
| Language: | English , Spanish; Castilian . |
| Repository: | Lilly Library 1200 E. Seventh St. Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500 Business Number: 812-855-2452 liblilly@iu.edu URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library |
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.
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).
The collection is arranged following original order.
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[Item], Cohen, Jonathan mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Gift: 2018