Looking for Trouble Bernardo Atxaga

Looking for Trouble Bernardo AtxagaAn extraordinary poet of rebellion and humour, fierce militancy and painful tenderness, Roque Daltons (19351975) poetry has been widely published in Cuba, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia and the US. Looking for Trouble is the first time his work has been published in the UK. Dalton was a member of the Salvadorean Communist party and escaped imprisonment and death more than once before spending several years in exile in Mexico, Cuba and

where he is currently Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Missouri-St

people who still have too much to hide

a precious state of mind

The bed of poverty

including La Fabrique du Bonheur

alongside wordplay

“When you turn on the bathroom light your reflection stares numbly back at you

his first collection in eight years

of arrival and loss

white of the moon

go out and buy it

they said their skirts were filled with stones