My Life in 100 Objects

Name: My Life in 100 Objects
SKU: 9781613321140
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Author: Margaret Randall
ISBN: 9781613321140

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvMargaret Randall

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Traces the remarkable life of a feminist poet through the items and images that have have defined her experiencesMy Life in 100 Objects is a personal reflection on the events and moments that shaped the life and work of one extraordinary woman. With a masterful, poetic voice, Margaret Randall uses talismanic objects and photographs as launching points for her nonlinear narrative. Through each "object," Randall uncovers another part of herself, starting in a museum in Amman, Jordan, and ending in the Latin American Studies Association in Boston. Interwoven throughout are her most precious relationships, her growth as an artist, and her brave, revolutionary spirit.As Randall's adventures often coincide with important moments in history, many of her objects provide a transcontinental glimpse into social upheavals and transitions. She shares memories from her years in Cuba (1969 to 1980) and Nicaragua (1980 to 1984), as well as briefer periods in North Vietnam (immediately preceding the end of the war in 1975), and Peru (during the government of Velasco Alvarado). In her introduction, Randall states, "objects and places have always been alive to me." Her history too is alive, as much of a means to consider our own present as it is toglimpse her vibrant past.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-09-15
Mått127 x 203 x 17 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor250
FörlagNew Village Press
ISBN9781613321140

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Margaret Randall is a feminist poet with a long history of social activism (in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, as well as the United States). More than 150 published books reflect her personal experience and generational struggles. She has also translated much poetry by others. In Mexico, she co-founded El Corno Emplumado, a bilingual journal that published more than 700 writers from 35 countries. Returning to the US in 1984, the government ordered her deported, claiming her writing subversive. She won her case in 1989. Among her recent awards are the Poet of Two Hemisphere Prize (Quito, Ecuador 2019) and the 2020 George Garrett Award given by AWP.

My Life in 100 Objects is a nonlinear inventory of the self by beat-expressionist-become-revolutionary poet Margaret Randall. Her sense of objecthood is elastic: the expected possessions, yes, writing accoutrements, but also places, photographs, books, art, monuments, artifacts. A medal, a fake passport, a court brief from when the INS tried to deport her. An underused treadmill. She puts it all out there and lets it all in. Even as they stretch all the way back to her childhood in the '40s, or her young adulthood in the '60s, her stories have never been more of the moment: who gets to come to this country, who gets to love whom, and every other hard-won freedom still at stake today. - Garrett Caples, Editor, City Lights Spotlight Randall's hope was to show us 'how the objects and places that move us breathe their life into ours.' In this, she certainly succeeds. A heartwarming celebration of the author's compelling life. (Kirkus Review)