Poems (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Dalton, Roque

Poetry

Curbstone Pr

Poems

Curbstone Press

Miguel Mármol is the testimony of a revolutionary, as recorded by Salvadoran writer, Roque Dalton, which documents the historical and political events of El Salvador through the first decades of the 20th century. This Latin American classic describes the growth and development of the workers' movement and the communist party in El Salvador and Guatemala, and contains Mármol's impressions of post-revolutionary Russia in the twenties, describing in vivid detail the brutality and repression of the Martínez dictatorship and the reemergence of the workers' movement after Martínez was ousted. It also gives a broad and clear picture of the lives of the ordinary peasant and worker in Central America, their sufferings, their hopes and their struggles.

Miguel Marmol

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Curbstone Books

These Clandestine Poems, written in the voices of five imaginary poets, deliver their political insights with biting humor, strength and tenderness. They are the poems of a worker and fighter, filled with courage, who loved life and hated oppression.

Clandestine Poems/Poemas Clandestinos (Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

Roque Dalton is one of the best-known and loved poets of 20th century Latin America. An extraordinary poet of rebellion and humor, fierce and painful tenderness, his work is still read alongside guerrilla poets like Otto Ren Castillo, Javier Heraud, Cardenal, and Daisy Zamora. Dalton studied law in Chile and then at the University of San Salvador, where he helped found the Committed Generation of Poets. He was accused of being a CIA spy and murdered four days before his 40th birthday. Translated from Spanish by John Green and Michal Boncza.

Looking for Trouble (English and Spanish Edition)

Smokestack Books

Product Description Poems of revolution by one of Latin America’s most beloved poets One of Latin America’s greatest poets, Roque Dalton was a revolutionary whose politics were inseparable from his art. Born in El Salvador in 1935, Dalton dedicated his life to fighting for social justice, while writing fierce, tender poems about his country and its people. In Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle, he explores oppression and resistance through the lens of five poetic personas, each with their own distinct voice. These poems show a country caught in the crosshairs of American imperialism, where the few rule the many and the many struggle to survive—and yet there is joy and even humor to be found here, as well as an abiding faith in humanity. In striking, immediate, exuberantly inventive language, Dalton captures the ethos of a people, as stirring now as when the book was first published forty years ago. “I believe the world is beautiful,” he writes, “and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone.” About the Author ROQUE DALTON (1935–1975) was an enormously influential figure in the history of Latin America as a poet, essayist, intellectual, and revolutionary. As a poet who brilliantly fused politics and art, his example permanently changed the direction of Central American poetry. The author of eighteen volumes of poetry and prose, one of which (Taberna y otros lugares) received a Casa de las Américas prize in 1967, his work combines fierce satirical irony with a humane and exuberant tenderness. His legacy extends beyond his achievements as a poet to his political writings and political work in his native El Salvador.Jack Hirschman is a poet and translator. Among his recent collections of poetry is All That’s Left (City Lights Books, 2008). He has taught at UCLA and was previously the poet laureate of San Francisco.

Historias y poemas de una lucha de clases / Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle

United States

Seven Stories Press

“Miguel Mármol is an extraordinary literary document and political resource.”—The Nation
This is the classic Latin American testimony of a shoemaker and revolutionary. Miguel Mármol devoted his life to organizing El Salvador’s poor, narrowly escaping capture and death several times for his political activities. In Prague in 1966, poet Roque Dalton interviewed Mármol, producing a remarkable first-person account of Mármol’s life.

Miguel Marmol: Los sucesos de 1932 en El Salvador (Spanish Edition)

Ocean Sur

Roque Dalton (1935–1975), the international prize-winning Salvadoran poet, uses five different voices to express his passion, humor, exuberance, tenderness, and courage, brilliantly fusing his political commitment with his art. He writes: "I believe the world is beautiful and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone." Originally published as Poemas Clandestinos.

Historias y Poemas de una lucha de clases (Colección Roque Dalton) (Spanish Edition)

A “little red book” for Lenin by a Salvadoran poet. Written between 1970 and 1973 in Cuba and later in Vietnam, this provocative mixture of prose and poetry shows Roque Dalton’s beliefs that art should reflect a commitment to social change and that Lenin was “the greatest man of the century.”

Un libro rojo para Lenin (Colección Roque Dalton) (Spanish Edition)

This never-before-published prose manuscript is Roque Dalton’s analysis of US domination in Central America—from the exploits of William Walker in the 1800s to 1972—where he argues that local oligarchies are the primary force preventing Central American independence.

Imperialismo y Revolución en Centroamérica, Parte I: El aparato imperialista en Centroamérica (Spanish Edition)

History

Americas

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