Two offerings: one for Roswellians and one for those who enjoy patter of poetry and exclamations of life

“The Last Witnesses to Roswell: Their Startling Stories Told for the First Time” 

www.ufoexplorations.com

And

Concerning the late Ernesto Cardenal, the Communist Hypothesis, and related matters…
by Bryan Sentes

https://bryansentes.com/2020/03/03/concerning-the-late-ernesto-cardenal-the-communist-hypothesis-and-related-matters/

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The Roswell material by Anthony Bragalia is for those of you who still maintain interest in the Roswell incident.

And Bryan Sentes' offering about Ernesto Cardenal is for the more refined among you, persons inclined to pursue matters that transcend UFOs and related issues.

Bryan placed a note on Facebook about the Cardenal piece at his Poeta Doctus blog. The gist of the piece, aside from the laudatory tone respectful and regarding the poet and thinker Ernesto Cardenal, delves into Cardenal's Poems for the Millennium, Volume II  (UCP, 1998) because Bryan writes, it "is exemplary for me, because of its development of an “objectist” sensibility (a poetry of bald statement shorn of metaphor or ornament) wedded to a (religiously!) profound social sensibility that extends to all living creatures."

I took issue with the Cardenal encomium since it raises the flawed, as I see it, argument that Cardenal's "faith" is saturated by the socialist or, rather, communist patina that Jesus and his movement allegedly bestows on history (and thus the Christian faith).

If Jesus the Christ's story is true, the flavor of it transcends any- thing worldly that one can conceive. 

It's a matter so profound that to ladle a pre-Marxian overlay upon it is not only goofy, it is madness of an "academic" kind -- a mad- ness that afflicts and lays waste to something beyond rumination: that Jesus was God incarnate.

If the Jesus story is a fable, a creation of some addled Jewish renegades hoping to create a revised Judaism that got out of hand, then that Marxian patina is sheer genius -- an ideology that predates Marx by about 1800 years.

The poetry of Cardenal may be splendid, as Bryan suggests, but his end-life belief that to follow the example of Jesus is the point of existence, and that existence is communistic in nature, is just loony.

But you can decide if Bryan's citations make the point -- they usually do.

Other than that, see what Tony Bragalia's piece makes of the last Roswell witnesses. (They would do well to follow the example of Christ, since they too, like Ernesto Cardenal, will meet up with him on the other side -- perhaps.)

RR