Flights of victory = Vuelos de victoria : songs in celebration of the Nicaraguan revolution /

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,''' 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: ``it's also the time for new songs . . . there's a new word in our everyday speech/ `Companero'/ all this will remain for whoever wishes to see it . . . the beginning of the new history/ poetic newspapers.'' Recommended for larger collections. Thom Tammaro, Multidisciplinary Studies Dept., Moorhead State Univ., Minn. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.