Margaret Randall

Los poemas de Margaret Randall están escritos con sabiduría y comprensión de la complejidad de la vida y la naturaleza tortuosa de la historia, culminando en una protesta lírica y una reflexión profunda y etica sobre una amplia gama de temas contemporaneos. Estos poemas devuelven al lenguaje su significado autentico, recordandonos el poder de las palabras al expresar la verdad, y el potencial redentor de la poesia en estos tiempos terribles. Contra la atrocidad es un relato poetico extraordinario de una vida excepcional. Daisy Zamora Contra la atrocidad nos recuerda que la poesia nunca es simplemente un conjunto de palabras en una pagina, sino que existe como una lucha perenne en la mente, como una herramienta de reconocimiento que debemos poner en manos de otros. Cedar Sigo

Para Margaret Randall la creación poética "lo abarca todo" y es "asunto de vida o muerte", jamás un simple "hilo de palabras". Declara estar "comprometida con la vida, con su condición de mujer y de ser humano" y eso le hace estar "comprometida con la poesia". Poesia que incluye lo personal y lo colectivo, el erotismo y la politica, la vida de su autora y la de los -y las- demas en un amplisimo registro que funde, igualmente, las tradiciones poeticas norteamericana e hispanoamericana, y siempre desde una perspectiva de mujer que la diferencia y enriquece.

In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on times movement--through memory, through cities, through the leavings of history, and through the bodies of people who have experienced times transformations and traumas. Randalls ruins include not only Chaco Canyon, Hovenweep, Teotihuacan, Machu Picchu, Kiet Siel, Petra, and sites in ancient Greece and Egypt, but also Auschwitz-Birkenau and lives shattered by torture and oppression.Always there is that moment of arrival, as another reality rises before me, superimposed upon the one I live today. Sometimes the membrane is torn, and I find myself moving in and out. Boundaries dissolve. A mysterious space, between then and now, warns as it invites: promising revelation and maybe also fresh trauma if I am willing to risk its secrets.--Margaret Randall, in the Introduction

Margaret Randall has contributed poetry, essays, translations, and oral histories to the public discourse since the 1960s. Here, she assembles many of the prose works largely lost to time that demonstrate the arc of her thinking, from keynote addresses to informal talks and essays published long ago. More recent work reflects her fierce need to address topics about which she has new things to say. The essays range from photography to translation, social justice to creative expression. This deep collection bridges periods of our history and hers, contributing to the complex weave produced by Randalls generation of thinkers and makers.