This Honest Land
Published on 1. May 2024
194 pages
978-1-60940-628-8 (ISBN)
Description
Well into her ninth decade, legendary human rights activist, poet, historian, translator and editor Margaret Randall keeps right on producing important and impressive books - so many that even Randall lost count around 200. In her latest poetry collection, This Honest Land, she revisits many of her familiar themes: memory, place and displacement, climate change, fear, love, and the desert landscape of her New Mexican home. These poems are alive and vivid, almost youthfully intense, yet simultaneously wise and insightful with the authority of the poet's mature voice.
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- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Rumbling Toward Eruption
- The Fairytale
- Prehistory
- Coyote Time
- Their Animal Sensibilities
- Stitching a Habitat that Can Survive
- Inhabiting Worlds
- For Nina Simone (1933-2003)
- Unkept Promise
- A Final Truth
- Art as Invitation
- This Honest Land
- Place of Dignity
- Se murió en el desierto de Nuevo Mexico
- Heat
- Farewell to the Saguaros
- The Danger of Reading Scripture as History
- Worst Drought in 1,200 Years
- A Revolution in the History of Matter
- Speaking through the Walls
- Silence
- The Boxes
- That Sweet Place
- Time Took a Little Here, Gave Some There
- Who We Are and Were
- Forgetting is the First to Go
- Relentless
- A Nation in Memory
- Battle the Censor to His Death
- When Violence Needs no Reason
- What If
- What Lies or Truths
- Behind These Words
- The Words We Choose
- They Made Him Choose
- Two Women
- My Breasts, Enchore
- Each Choice
- Not Really Lies
- No Forgetting
- Negotiating Bargains
- Trust the Messenger
- Memory of Water
- Looking Up
- Light Blinds and Lifts by Turn
- Game of Deadly Wits
- From the Beginning
- Don't Confuse It with Some Apocalyptic Lie
- I Forget
- Early
- Modesty
- Asking Too Much
- I Can Always Stop
- Nations
- Cry Freedom
- Misogyny's Map
- One Last Conversation
- Our Holidays
- A Matter of Scale
- Second Chance
- The Glass
- Chuckling at Funnies
- Following Choice
- What Grows and Flowers
- Tracing the Mystery
- Sorry for the Poet, Embarrassed for the Poems
- Signatures
- When Fear no Longer Raises its Head
- When One Talks, the Other Must Listen
- Be Your Best Self
- Smile
- Making it Harder to Pronounce Our Names
- Poet without Words
- Waving Goodbye to the Shadow of Myself
- Room 5007
- There or Here
- Eons of Lies
- Words
- Calling My Name
- About the Author
- Back Cover
