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Product Description “Miguel Mármol is an extraordinary literary document and political resource.”—The Nation This is the classic Latin American testimony of a shoemaker and revolutionary. Miguel Mármol devoted his life to organizing El Salvador’s poor, narrowly escaping capture and death several times for his political activities. In Prague in 1966, poet Roque Dalton interviewed Mármol, producing a remarkable first-person account of Mármol’s life. About the Author An enormously influential figure in the history of Latin America as a poet, essayist, intellectual and revolutionary. As a poet who brilliantly fused politics and art, his example could be said to have permanently changed the direction of Central American poetry. His legacy extends beyond his achievements as a poet to his political writings and his work as revolutionary.