After a life of political solidarity with those struggling for justice and liberation, his fellow guerrillas, the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army), suspected him of sowing divisiveness, with fatal results: the poet was executed in his sleep by his own party shortly before his fortieth birthday. A phrase from his íComo túë (Like You) is one of the most iconic images in modern poetics: íla poesía es como el pan, para todosë (ípoetry is like bread, for everyoneë). His key collections, full of irony, humor, and a vast humanity, include El turno del ofendido [The Injured Party's Turn], Taberna y otros lugares [Tavern and Other Places], Los pequeños infiernos [Small Hells], and Poemas clandestinos [Clandestine Poems]. The publisher Ocean Press in Australia is planning a bilingual edition of Dalton's complete works.