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
Roque Dalton was El Salvador's most prominent poet and intellectual and an authority on the history and politics of Central America. In this unpublished book, he reviews the 1932 popular insurrection
Salvadoran revolutionary poet Roque Dalton reflects on his time in Prague, where he witnessed the popular uprising and the Soviet invasion in 1968. This book won the Casa de las Americas Literary Awar
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&
Roque Dalton (19351975), the international prize-winning Salvadoran poet, uses five different voices to express his passion, humor, exuberance, tenderness, and courage, brilliantly fusing his p
This is the classic history of a troubled Central American nation, El Salvador, written by one of its most famous literary figures. With poetic illumination, Roque Dalton describes his homeland's nat
What should be the cultural objectives of a revolution? What is the role of the intellectual? What have been the experiences in socialist revolutions? What is the function of poetry? These questions a
This unpublished book was written by the Salvadoran revolutionary and poet shortly before his death. Composed of two book-length essays, "The imperialist apparatus in Central America" and "El Salvador
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
Miguel Marmol 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 2
"English-only edition of poems written from exile, prison, and on the run by the Salvadoran revolutionary whose life and word urged love as well as change. Selected from 10 of his collections includin
