Margaret Randall is an American author, poet, and photographer. Born in New York City in 1936, she lived for many years in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, and spent time in North Vietnam during the last months of the U.S. war in that country. She has written extensively on her experiences abroad and back in the United States. Randall taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, the University of New Mexico, Macalester College, and the University of Delaware. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her wife.
"The wonder of some of these interviews--I'm thinking of Giocanda
Belli and Vidaluz Meneses particularly--the truthfulness as they
tell their lives as women and literary workers in a revolutionary
time... the happiness, the toll, the sacrifice that's part of the
process. And most interesting to an American woman and writer--the
pride of being heard, your next poem waited for--your trade "poet"
respected and emulated by the young." --Grace Paley
"This is a book that encourages and empowers those of us who are
poets, those of us who write--and those of us who work to change
society to fit the hopes and dreams of the common people." --Alice
Walker
"This new collection of twelve interviews with Nicaraguan writers
is a fascinating testament to basic human possibilities despite the
harshly political determinations we have forced upon them. Once
again it is Margaret Randall's unique power as a listener that can
make a bridge to this complex place we must finally recognize as
our common world." --Robert Creeley
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