Research Catalog

Title

Small hours of the night : selected poems of Roque Dalton / edited by Hardie St. Martin ; translated by Jonathan Cohen, James Graham, Ralph Nelson, Paul Pines, Hardie St. Martin and David Unger.

Author

Dalton, Roque, 1935-1975.

Publication

[Willimantic, Connecticut] : Curbstone Press, ©1996.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• St. Martin, Hardie.
• Cohen, Jonathan.

Description

xxxiii, 201 p.; 22 cm

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 201).

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 -- The Crazy Ones -- Time for Ashes -- Hating Love -- Monday -- My Horse -- Listen -- Poems-In-Law to Lisa -- Dream Far Away from Time -- Vernacular Elegy for Francisco Sorto -- Minor Chorus of the Fifth Cell -- The Decision -- Island on the Fifth Floor -- Storm -- Stillborn Parable -- The Bad Example -- Because I Spoke Out -- I See -- Insomnia -- The Disciple -- The Tropics -- Naked Woman -- Maria Tecun -- The Art of Poetry -- Madrigal -- Words in front of the Sea -- The Sixth Commandment -- What a Crazy Man Said to Me -- Megalomania -- The Pope -- Old Woman with Small Boy -- Another Dead Woman -- Cesar Vallejo -- Vanity -- Small Hours of the Night -- The Bureaucrats -- Mariano the Musician Has Died -- Epitaph -- Terrible Thing -- I Wanted -- The Sea --
• Juan Cunjama, Sorcerer -- Overlook -- The Desert -- Rite for the Birth of a Flower on the Great Pyramid -- The Deer -- Pine -- Homage to Sage -- Relative -- My Country's Far Away -- Forgetting -- Middle Age -- Leaves -- Passing the Factory -- Now You See Why -- When Death -- Tied Down to the Sea -- I Remember When I'd Talk of Lisa -- A Dead Girl in the Ocean -- Memory -- The Prodigal Son -- German-American Hotel -- Latin America -- 27 Years -- Fear -- Soldier's Rest -- The Captain -- In a Fit of Anger -- The National Soul -- The Law Enforcer -- The Sure Hand of God -- Sir Thomas -- Samantha -- Matthew -- The Bishop -- Lady Ann -- The Firstborn -- Sir Thomas -- Matthew -- Sir Thomas -- Matthew -- Samantha -- Lady Ann -- The Firstborn -- Prison Again -- Preparing the Next Hour -- Independence Day -- Summer -- Your Company -- I Smell Bad -- Bad News on a Scrap of Newspaper -- Permission to Wash Up -- Some Longings -- Number 357 --
• The Morning I Met My Father -- The Young People -- A Not Exactly Optimistic Tragedy -- Springtime in Jevani -- The Social Being Determines Social Conscience -- In Case of Doubt -- Love Story -- 50th Anniversary -- Tavern -- Love -- Zdena -- What's Missing -- 35 Years -- Sunday Morning -- Seeing You Naked -- Date -- Therapeutics -- Saudade -- Epitaph -- Tense Conversation -- Trick -- No, I Wasn't Always This Ugly -- VIII -- IX.

ISBN

1880684357 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

96000867

OCLC

• 34077611
• ocm34077611

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries