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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."

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By 1973, Dalton was one of Latin America¿s most recognizable voices, a Salvadoran poet with more than a dozen collections of essays and poems to his credit. But literary recognition didn't matter in the least to Dalton. The revolutionary current sweeping through Latin America proved impossible to resist for the 38 year old, who, after living in exile, sneaked back into El Salvador, to join the People's Revolutionary Army. So taken was Dalton with the revolutionary cause that he applied to serve as a soldier, only to be rejected by the higher-ups. So Dalton did what came most naturally to him: write. The result-a long-form collage poem about Lenin and Leninism in Latin America¿is arguably one of Dalton's most experimental and ambitious works, an attempt to re-conceptualize the art of poetry within revolutionary thought. Indeed, Dalton considers this work to be in the same revolutionary tradition as writings by Ho Chi Minh, Kim II Sung, and Fidel Castro. But unlike those works, Dalton's foray into collage poetry, inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky's collage poem of Lenin, draws on multiple sources and voices, including Che Guevara, György Lukács, and Lenin himself, to capture the cacophony of revolutionary impulses animating Latin America. Dalton's fascination with the art of collage poetry was such that it would carry into his subsequent Las historias prohibidas del Pulgarcito. Recommended for bookstores and university and public libraries with a Latin American poetry section.-Michael Sosa, Brooklyn, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.