Jonathan Cohen
has been translating Cardenal since 1970: With Walker in Nicaragua and Other Early Poems, 1949–1954 and From Nicaragua, With Love: Poems (1979–1986), among others. He edited Cardenal’s Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems. His translations of other major Latin American poets, including Enrique Lihn, Pedro Mir and Roque Dalton have been widely published.