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Margaret Randall
By excerpting from letters she exchanged with five irreverent writers and artists, Margaret Randall constructs conversations that open windows on four pivotal moments in her life and on world events…
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The latest essays by legendary Margaret Randall explore language, art, integrity, politics, and history, all through the passionate lenses of social justice and creative expression: "a profound and passionate rumination"…
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Well into her ninth decade, legendary human rights activist, poet, historian, translator and editor Margaret Randall keeps right on producing important and impressive books -so many that even Randall lost…
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Chronicles the author’s decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. This work gives readers an inside look at her children’s education, the process through which new law was enacted, the…
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In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time’s movement - through memory, through cities, through the leavings of history, and through the bodies…
Transcriptions and narratives of Central American and Caribbean women.
A feminist perspective on the War on Terror from one of the country’s most important elders.
Combining anecdotes with analysis, Margaret Randall describes how, in 20th century revolutionary societies, women’s issues were gradually pushed aside. Randall shows how distorted visions of liberation as well as shortcomings…
Money determines the way we live our lives. In a patriarchial society women experience money as one more element of control: often abusive, sometimes paralyzing. In this book, Randall interviews…
Margaret Randall describes her long love affair with the Grand Canyon as dating to the summer of 1947 when her father took her down its trails by mule. Since then…
A collection of poems by Margaret Randall which she describes as her impossible poems - the ones which speak of things that can’t be said.
Sandino’s Daughters, Margaret Randall’s conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the lives of a group of extraordinary female revolutionaries to the American…
Author and poet Margaret Randall describes her life through 100 short prose pieces, each written on the image of a different object –
First revised edition of interviews with 14 prominent activists whose writings influenced the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution and help us understand present-day Nicaragua
Margaret Randall presents a dynamic collection of personal…
Throughout this volume of poetry there is a concern with time, place, and memory; intimate landscape; mature love; the current threat to the richness of language; global consciousness; a mapping…
Margaret Randall’s first large book of poems since Time’s Language: Selected Poems 1959-2018. This new book shows that this poet continues to be a relevant and inspiring voice in American…
This collection of poetry grew out of the first months of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The poems reflect the fear, isolation, and horror we felt as society - as we…
A collection of poems consciously restore language to its natural habitat. They deal with history, memory, loss, life, death and promise. They address love and aging. They become a welcome…
During the strange and unsettling second year of COVID-19, Margaret Randall suddenly found herself writing short stories. The author of over 150 books of poetry, essays, biography, nonfiction and translations…
Concerns about power, its use and abuse, have been at the centre of Margaret Randall’s work for more than fifty years. And over time Randall has acquired a power all…
Presents a collection of essays on a variety of political, cultural, and literary issues, all linked by Margaret Randall’s attention to power: its use, misuse, and impact on how we…
A completely new and different book from her earlier Sandino’s Daughters. The core is a dozen lengthy interviews with feminist women (all but one), hence not randomly drawn from Nicaraguan…
In the early 1980s, in the midst of Central America’s decades of dirty wars, Nora Miselem of Honduras and Maria Suarez Toro of Costa Rica were kidnapped and subjected to…
Nine miles down a primitive trail, over hills of sand and rock, across ankle-deep streams, and around mires of quickmud lies Kiet Seel, a thirteenth-century ancestral Puebloan ruin. This is…
A poetry collection about connectivity, this book suggests that humankind is linked by its concerns for global human rights and a sustainable global climate. Named for a root system that…
Like earlier Margaret Randall poetry collections, this presents a unique poetic voice by a revered elder in the genre. These poems are all about making connections, many of them unexpected…
Detailing the natural and human history of Rapa Nui - more commonly known as Easter Island - this collection of poems and photographs links together the ancient inhabitants of the…
Thirty-one not-quite-essays from Margaret Randall, one of the premier thinkers and most prolific authors of our time.
Margaret Randall’s new collection, She Becomes Time, continues her legacy of poetry that combines the intimate with the global, history with feeling, memory with the world we touch and see…
Time's Language I (Wings Press, 2018) included selections from Margaret Randall' s poetry collections beginning with her first self-published book in 1959 and ending six decades later. Time's Language II…
Margaret Randall's latest poetry collection is perhaps her finest work yet. Vertigo of Risk is, as Denise Chavez calls it, Randall's Master Opus-a "Testimonio to a life lived in the…
An impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevera by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall.
In this intimate portrait, Margaret Randall tells the story of Haydee Santamaria, the only woman to participate in every phase of the Cuban Revolution. Although unknown outside Cuba, Santamaria was…
Covering eight decades and featuring the work of over fifty poets from diverse backgrounds born between 1902 and 1981, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete…
Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution’s impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba’s international outreach in healthcare, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports to show how this…
The legendary Margaret Randall's latest work shines as some of her finest poetry yet, with explorations of the many senses of home as a creative act.
In I Never Left Home, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall tells the moving, captivating, and astonishing story of her life, from her childhood in New York to joining the Sandanista…
The first book-length collaboration between poet Margaret Randall and photographer Barbara Byers, with all new work.
Explores activist scholarship in relation to feminism and social movements in the Americas.
Incorporating short prose, photography, and poetry, this memoir celebrates Albuquerque, New Mexico, and recollects how the author’s life and the city itself were impacted by Cold War politics, the atomic…
