Ética-Política en Salmos de Ernesto Cardenal

From the middle of the last century onwards, poets began to publish in different Latin American countries that aimed, on the one hand, to promote democracy as an ideal system for the societies of the time and promote the overthrow of the dictatorships suffered by countries such as the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua, etc., and, on the other, inaugurate a new way of writing poetry, a poetry more committed to social causes and not only to language itself. Among those poets is Ernesto Cardenal (1925), an emblematic figure of the Sandinista revolution that ended in 1979 with more than forty years ofSomocista dictatorship. Ernesto Cardenal published several poetry books that today are paradigms of what is known as social or revolutionary poetry in Latin America, but which, unfortunately, are not yet studied with the prolixity that their importance requires. This paper will reflect precisely on the ethical-political proposal that Ernesto Cardenal printed in his book Psalms (based on a deep knowledge of political ethics and even religious morals) not only as a new way of conceiving the political fact in Latin America but, also, to found a new way (the "exteriorist", a term he coined) to make poetry.