Margaret Randall is a poet, essayist, photographer, and revolutionary. She is associated with New York’s abstract expressionists and the Beat Movement, revolutionary histories in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, and a famous case of political deportation in 1984-89. Randall has lived in New York City, Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua with formative stays in Peru and North Vietnam. She currently lives with her wife, painter and teacher Barbara Byers, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A collection of letters exchanged between the author and four “outriders”—artists, writers, and activists who risk everything to confront censorship, injustice, and the constraints of convention.
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.
Luck is a collection of essays that combines scholarly research with personal experience, producing texts both intimate and illuminating. Always attentive to the world around her and the one within, Randall has brought us her most relevant and powerful essays to date.
First published in 1984, Risking a Somersault in the Air is a collection of interviews with fourteen of Nicaragua’s most important writers-revolutionaries. Filling in the gaps with new photographs and updates on the writers in the time since the original edition, the book looks at the sacrifices, conflicts, and solutions of the creative artists of Nicaragua’s revolution. Randall shows how Nicaragua, like its poetry, is an expression of great love, imagination, and liberation.
My 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. Interwoven throughout are her most precious relationships, her growth as an artist, and her brave, revolutionary spirit.
Artists in My Life is a collection of intimate and conversational accounts of the visual artists that have impacted the renowned poet-activist Margaret Randall on her own journey as an artist. Each story offers insight into the artist’s life and work, and analyses the impact it had on Randall’s own work and its impact on the larger art community. The work strives to answer bigger questions about visual art as a whole and its lasting political influence on the world stage.
An account of the women’s art movement in New York City from 1970 to 1992 and how these women created politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, actions, and institutions.
