Small Hours of the Night

by Dalton, Roque; St. Martin, Hardie; Cohen, Jonathan; Graham, James; Nelson, Ralph; Pines, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781880684351
• ISBN10: 1880684357
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Curbstone Pr

Summary

"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 including two posthumous manuscripts, but none are from Poemasclandestinos (1980). The vital force of the intimate, conversational Spanish challenges the translators. Introductory essays by Ernesto Cardenal, Claribel Alegrâia, and Hardie St. Martin recommend work for the classroom and the general reader"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Table of Contents

Preface: I Remember Roque, Ernesto Cardenal
Preface: Roque Dalton: Poet and Revolutionary, Claribel Alegria
Preface: Love Falls Like a Generous Rain, Hardie St. Martin
Study with a Little Tedium	p. 2
The Crazy Ones	p. 3
Time for Ashes	p. 4
Hating Love	p. 5
Monday	p. 6
My Horse	p. 8
Listen	p. 9
Poems-In-Law to Lisa	p. 11
Dream Far Away from Time	p. 13
Vernacular Elegy for Francisco Sorto	p. 15
Minor Chorus of the Fifth Cell	p. 17
The Decision	p. 20
Island on the Fifth Floor	p. 21
Storm	p. 22
Stillborn Parable	p. 24
The Bad Example	p. 25
Because I Spoke Out	p. 26
I See	p. 27
Insomnia	p. 28
The Disciple	p. 29
The Tropics	p. 30
Naked Woman	p. 31
Maria Tecun	p. 32
The Art of Poetry	p. 34
Madrigal	p. 36
Words in front of the Sea	p. 37
The Sixth Commandment	p. 39
What a Crazy Man Said to Me	p. 40
Megalomania	p. 41
The Pope	p. 42
Old Woman with Small Boy	p. 43
Another Dead Woman	p. 44
Cesar Vallejo	p. 45
Vanity	p. 46
Small Hours of the Night	p. 47
The Bureaucrats	p. 48
Mariano the Musician Has Died	p. 49
Epitaph	p. 50
Terrible Thing	p. 51
I Wanted	p. 52
The Sea	p. 56
Juan Cunjama, Sorcerer	p. 62
Overlook	p. 64
The Desert	p. 65
Rite for the Birth of a Flower on the Great Pyramid	p. 66
The Deer	p. 67
Pine	p. 68
Homage to Sage	p. 69
Relative	p. 70
My Country's Far Away	p. 72
Forgetting	p. 74
Middle Age	p. 75
Leaves	p. 76
Passing the Factory	p. 77
Now You See Why	p. 78
When Death	p. 79
Tied Down to the Sea	p. 80
I Remember When I'd Talk of Lisa	p. 82
A Dead Girl in the Ocean	p. 83
Memory	p. 84
The Prodigal Son	p. 86
German-American Hotel	p. 88
Latin America	p. 98
27 Years	p. 99
Fear	p. 100
Soldier's Rest	p. 101
The Captain	p. 102
In a Fit of Anger	p. 103
The National Soul	p. 104
The Law Enforcer	p. 105
The Sure Hand of God	p. 106
Sir Thomas	p. 112
Samantha	p. 112
Matthew	p. 113
The Bishop	p. 113
Lady Ann	p. 114
The Firstborn	p. 114
Sir Thomas	p. 115
Matthew	p. 116
Sir Thomas	p. 117
Matthew	p. 118
Samantha	p. 119
Lady Ann	p. 120
The Firstborn	p. 120
Prison Again	p. 122
Preparing the Next Hour	p. 123
Independence Day	p. 125
Summer	p. 126
Your Company	p. 127
I Smell Bad	p. 128
Bad News on a Scrap of Newspaper	p. 129
Permission to Wash Up	p. 130
Some Longings	p. 131
Number 357	p. 132
The Morning I Met My Father	p. 134
The Young People	p. 138
A Not Exactly Optimistic Tragedy	p. 139
Springtime in Jevani	p. 140
The Social Being Determines Social Conscience	p. 142
In Case of Doubt	p. 146
Love Story	p. 147
50th Anniversary	p. 154
Tavern	p. 155
Love	p. 176
Zdena	p. 177
What's Missing	p. 179
35 Years	p. 180
Sunday Morning	p. 181
Seeing You Naked	p. 182
Date	p. 183
Therapeutics	p. 186
Saudade	p. 187
Epitaph	p. 188
Tense Conversation	p. 189
Trick	p. 190
No, I Wasn't Always This Ugly	p. 192
VIII	p. 197
IX	p. 198
Notes	p. 201
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