"Celebrated throughout the Hispanic world, but still almost unknown to English readers, Carlos Martínez Rivas (1924-1998) was a passionate and linguistically brilliant Nicaraguan poet who raised a 'solitary insurrection' against society's oppressive orthodoxies and hypocrisies. Only few English translations have appeared over the years in Journals and anthologies, and these are the first to be published as a collection"--Back cover.