CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 24, 2009 | By HECTOR TOBAR
Somewhere up in poet heaven, Roque Dalton is a happy man. Just across the street from MacArthur Park, the town square of Central American immigrants in Los Angeles, a tiny storefront has an entire shelf dedicated to the works of the Salvadoran writer, who died in 1975. Dalton's poems celebrate the tenacity of Salvadorans and their diaspora across the Americas. If his books had eyes, they could look through the store's glass window and see his countrymen hawking snow cones and tacos outside.