SOURCE: “Class Poetry: Five Books from Curbstone Press,” in Fiction International, Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer/Fall, 1986, pp. 202-9.
In the following review, Jacobson compares Dalton to Latin American poets Otto René Castillo and César Vallejo, and, although recognizing Dalton's power as a poet, reproaches him for being “intellectual,” and for what he sees as Dalton's tendency to criticize “bourgeois” institutions using “bourgeois” standards and means, rather than writing “from the perspective of the working class.”
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