Times Language Selected Poems (1959-2018) [Hardcover]

Time's Languagecontains powerful poems of witness as well as personal poems, and autobiographical prose pieces (that read like prose poems), recounting a life of resistance, the life of a life-long literary and political revolutionary. As US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera writes, "Here are Margaret Randall’s decades of love, ink, tears, contestation and light—let us bow in gratitude for this truth-telling, daring, border-breaking, pioneering long-time volume of soul fire."

“Margaret Randall’s name rolls off the tongue as our champion citizen of the imagination. The United States government deported her for her brilliant, outlaw poems. This beautiful book contains sixty extraordinary years of verse! Every library worthy of its readers and of protecting the canon of courageous, resilient poets needs this book!” —C. A. Conrad, author ofECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
 

“Margaret Randall’s work is a gift of charmed vision. Language-Magic in conference with the kicks of social/personal realism. She sings of the pan-experience of human consciousness, profoundly female, resonant and elegant in her essence-statement, ‘Everyone is born a poet.’ All in dignity to the marginalized spirit-lives of the misbegotten where the poet-activist shares love and anger, education and intellect, protest and mercy—and everyone’s right to rise above their station.” —Thurston Moore, author ofNo Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980.
 

 “It is an honor to read this collection of poems, that at times appears as a revolutionary’s journal, a lover’s secret notes, a mother’s many lives and a seer’s grasp of that which cannot be named—this life of incredible being in battle against non-being. We are given many clues on the road to the ‘homeland,&rsqlƒÀ