Time's Language
Selected Poems (1959-2018)
Published on 1. September 2018
452 pages
978-1-60940-574-8 (ISBN)
Description
Time's Language contains 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, "e;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."e;
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Margaret Randall | Katherine M. Hedeen | Victor Rodriguez Nunez
Time's Language
Selected Poems (1959-2018)
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09/2018
Wings Press
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Content
- Front Cover
- Front Flip
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Margaret Randall, by Elaine de Kooning
- Editors' Preface: Margaret Randall's Commitment to Poetry
- The Poet's Annotated Chronology
- Acknowledgments
- From Giant of Tears (New York: Tejon Press, 1959)
- Tradition
- Number 5
- Of Sevilla Now as It Is
- Wish
- From Ecstasy Is a Number (New York: Orion Press, 1961)
- Ecstasy Is a Number
- The Third Week
- Eating the Snow
- From Poems of the Glass (Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964)
- This Is the Way We Say Go
- From Small Sounds from the Bass Fiddle (Albuquerque, Duende Press, 1964)
- Small Sounds from the Bass Fiddle
- There Is Something for You to Do
- Definition
- From October (Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado, 1965)
- To Answer Your Question
- These Movements Making Dance
- Places (1 and 2)
- The Difference
- From 25 Stages of My Spine (New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, 1967)
- 7
- 13
- 25
- From Water I Slip Into at Night (Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado, 1967)
- Poem for My Thirtieth Year
- A Poem for March
- The Playback
- The Happening
- Using the Same Words
- Authority, Or the Autopsy of Love
- You Turn a Corner and
- The Dead Phoenix
- From So Many Rooms Has a House But One Roof (New York: New Rivers Press, 1968)
- 1
- 3
- 5
- 11
- 12
- From With Our Hands (Vancouver, B.C.: New Star Books, 1974)
- Exile
- The Fight
- From Carlota: Prose and Poems from Havana (Vancouver, B.C.: New Stars Books, 1978)
- Bottlecaps Are Everywhere
- Motherhood
- The Homeland
- From We (New York: Smyrna Press, 1978)
- Ammon The Young
- Nothing Was the Way It Was
- Parallel George
- From The Coming Home Poems (East Haven: LongRiver Books, 1986)
- Like Beads
- Star 80
- Myself, Regrouping
- The Gloves
- Immigration Law
- Talk to Me
- From Memory Says Yes (Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1988)
- Under the Stairs
- All Last Week
- Remaining Option
- The Green Clothes Hamper
- Variation on the Door
- Control
- From Dancing with the Doe: New and Selected Poems, 1986-1991 (Albuquerque: New End Press, 1992)
- I Want the Words Back
- The Colors of My Language
- Jesse Helms and My Grandfather
- Yes, Something Did Happen in My Childhood
- Dancing with the Doe
- The Path that Disappears
- Grief in, not In Front Of, the Mirror
- A Poem in Praise of Free Enterprise
- Driving with Daddy
- Thick As Honest Memory
- Joel Oppenheimer 1930-1988
- The Morning I Dreamed My Children
- The Suicide Wheel
- This Energy Flashing and Singing
- Retablos for Frida
- I Am Loving You
- From Hunger's Table: Women, Food and Politics (Watsonville, CA: Papier-Mâché Press, 1997)
- Cold Ginger Chicken
- Bouillabaisse
- Potato Latkes
- Battered Woman Surprise
- Canyon Food
- Antonio's Rice
- Mud of Heaven
- Hunger's Table
- The Staff of Life
- Rice Pudding
- Exorcism
- From Where They Left You for Dead (Boulder: EdgeWork Books, 2002)
- 1
- 3
- 12
- 15
- 19
- 21
- 24
- 27
- 30
- From Halfway Home (Boulder: EdgeWork Books, 2002)
- The body embraces
- Angelita, little angel
- What fails
- Patience pulls her long skirts
- The unburied, the missing
- These years have carved
- Three years
- Finding an easy stride
- Last Poem
- From Into Another Time: Grand Canyon Reflections (Albuquerque: West End Press, 2004)
- Great Unconformity
- It All Stops Here
- The Notebook
- Silence
- From Stones Witness (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007)
- Time
- Breaking Open Like a Rock
- Ferry to the Other Side
- Twins
- Canyon del Muerto
- Changing of the Guard
- Throwing My Voice to Weather
- The Corner of Latin America
- From Their Backs to the Sea (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2009)
- Island Without a Name
- Storyline
- Feet Still Run
- What I Tell the Young When They Ask
- From My Town (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2010)
- Nothing Was What It Pretended
- This Could Have Happened
- Startling These Skies in 1054
- An Attitude I Never Learned
- Elaine
- Ever Ready to Fly
- From Something's Wrong with the Cornfields (Great Britain: Skylight Press, 2011)
- Your Frightened Eyes
- Something's Wrong with the Cornfields
- Whoever We Are
- Warp and Weft
- Remaining on My Skin
- Memory Itself
- Long Goodbye to the Paper Page
- Small Rituals
- From As If the Empty Chair (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2011)
- Disappeared
- As If the Empty Chair
- Seasons
- Someone Lives
- From Ruins (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011)
- Places We Call Home
- Kiet Seel
- Cursive Writing and Old Slide-Rules
- Thank You
- From The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2013)
- The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones
- Canary in the Mine 1
- Mother Triptych
- Not Quite Blood
- Our Customs
- Colophon
- From About Little Charlie Lindbergh (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2014)
- Preface
- My Country
- Joining of No Return
- Da Vinci's Proportions
- About Little Charlie Lindbergh
- His Name Was Emmett Till, His Name Was Trayvon Martin
- This Poem's Got a Problem
- From She Becomes Time (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2016)
- Time's Language
- Look Up
- When I Give Myself to Jungles
- Does Being Dead Make It Hard to Keep Up
- She Becomes Time
- Two-Step Sonnet
- Another Night of Dreams
- I Am Waiting
- When Justice Felt at Home
- From The Morning After: Poetry and Prose in a Post-Truth World (San Antonio: Wings Press, 2017)
- Benoit Sees the Shapes
- Perhaps and Maybe
- The Translation Project
- The Morning After
- Uncollected Poems
- A Season with No Visible Exit
- Breath Carries Unwavering Meaning
- Exile (Details)
- Great Grandson
- Time's Perfect Duet
- Untended Evidence
- Rendering It a Hat
- Shapeshifter's Work
- Hadron Collider of Imagination
- Triage
- Made Rich by Art and Revolution
- Photographs
- Ca. 1940, Scarsdale, New York
- Late 1950s, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Ca. 1957, New York City
- 1970, Havana, Cuba
- 1970, Havana, Cuba
- 1980, Hartford, Connecticut
- 2008, Boulder, Colorado
- 2010, New York City
- 2012, Venice, California
- 2006, Mexico City
- 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 2016, San Antonio, Texas
- 2017, San Francisco, California
- About the Author
- About the Editors
- About the Cover Artist
- Back Flip
- Back Cover
