Download or read book Small Hours of the Night written by Roque Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the outstanding translations of 1996 by the American Literary Translators Association. One of the greatest figures in Central American letters of this century. His genius is transcendent. --Arturo Arias. [Dalton's poetry illustrates] his profound conviction that the poet can and must, in his life as in his work, serve as the finely-honed scalpel of change, both in word and deed. --Claribel Alegría. This man's work hits me harder than springtime. --E. Ethelbert Miller. A great gift to American poetry. --The Boston Globe.