Vertigo of Risk
1st Edition
Published on 21. February 2023
208 pages
978-1-956375-22-0 (ISBN)
Description
Margaret Randall's latest poetry collection is perhaps her finest work yet. Vertigo of Risk is, as Denise Chávez calls it, Randall's Master Opus-a "Testimonio to a life lived in the blessed search of Truth." The series of poems called "Dearest," which read as letters to friends and inspirations, leads into a sharpened assembly of pieces that both celebrates and champions life and art, all with Randall's rich candor and ear for language throughout.
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Person
Margaret Randall (b. New York, 1936) is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, photographer, and social activist. She lived in Latin America for twenty-three years (in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua). From 1962 to 1969, she and Mexican poet Sergio Mondragón co-edited El corno emplumado / The Plumed Horn, a bilingual literary quarterly that published some of the best new literature and art of the sixties. She is the author of more than two hundred books. She lives in Albuquerque with her partner (now wife) of more than thirty-six years, the visual artist Barbara Byers, and travels extensively to read, lecture, and teach.
Content
- Intro
- Dearest
- Dearest Ruth
- Dearest Mark
- Dearest Raquel
- Dearest Claribel
- Dearest Hilda
- Dearest Laurette
- Dearest Felipe
- Dearest Roque
- Dearest Maru
- Dearest Michael
- Dearest Paul
- Dearest Clarence
- Dearest Ceferino
- Dearest Anna
- Dearest Marv
- Dearest Phuc
- Dearest Kathy
- Dearest Ambrosio
- Vertigo of Risk
- Nepantla
- When I Lived
- One Degree of Heat or Cold
- Geode
- Waving Goodbye to Roe v Wade
- The Aging Poet #1
- The Aging Poet #2
- The Aging Poet #3
- Twilight
- Back to Front or Inside Out
- Mother
- My Father's Eyes
- In a Name
- Your Love of Here
- Fighting the Good Fight
- Evolution of the Species
- They Called Them Worms
- Perimeters
- Becoming Ourselves
- Every Morning
- From Where I Stand
- House of Battered Hope
- Not an Occasional Poem
- How Are You?
- The Smile Trembling on My Lips
- Prepared to Invade the Next Receptive Host
- Hope or Yope
- All Those Years Ago
- The Playground See-Saw
- Dressing the Part
- Our Future Tense
- Our Humanness
- It Matters
- Two for the Price of One
- "Everything Will Be All Right"
- Life Is a Two-Way Street
- What I Think and Feel
- My Theory of Nothing
- The Sum of One and One
- Understanding Metaphor
- On Life's Rickety Stages
- One Direction or Another
- When I Die
- Over and Out
- Beyond
- Learning to Think about Hunger and Want
- Never the Compliment It Pretends
- Respect for the Word
- Memory Tattoos Numbers on My Skin
- Monotony of Repetition and Passion of Repair
- Saving Our Place in the Crowd
- The Heart Muscle
- Tragic Flaw
- Desert
- The Acequias
- Water's Desire
- Earth's Dawn and Mine
- I Want to Glimpse the Woman Giving Birth
- Words as Breadcrumbs
- Codependence of Light and Shadow
- Give Yourself Up to Friendly Currents
- The Other
- Just People
- Moving Page after Ragged Page
- In Remembrance
- Take My Breath and Turn It Inside Out
- Words in the Fun House Mirror
- No One Washes Their Hands
- No Longer the Color of Promise
- Memory, Comforting or Brutal
- Breakthrough
- Humphrey Bogart's Trench Coat, Isadora Duncan's Scarf
- Ode to Typography
- Bookends
- Footprints
- The Hole in Your Calendar
- Dubious Gifts
- The Business of Dying
- Not Even the Cheetah
- Acknowledgments
- About Margaret Randall
