Content description:
Poster has a red background with black text. In the center is a white image of a man wearing a hat and a bow tie. The poster reads, "Ernesto Cardenal from O Hour/ translated by Martin Paul." First column of poem reads, "There was a Nicaraguan in a foreign country/ a "Nica" from Niquinohomo/ working for the Huasteca Petroleum Co., of Tampico...." The second column of poem reads, "...sad as a late afternoon on the mountain/ and glad as the morning on the mountain./ In the light his face regained its youth/ and in the shadow it filled with tiredness...." Third column of poem reads, "By the light of the kerosene lamp/ four soldiers are closing a hole./ And by light of a February moon...." Fourth and last column of poem reads, "Mambo music made its way down to Managua./ With his red and scummy, sharklike eyes/ but a shark surrounded by bodyguards and guns/ (Nicaraguan sharks)/ Somoza was dancing the mambo/ mambo mambo/ dig that mambo...." [A reverse image appears on verso. -LMC]