PART OF THE SOLUTION PA (Paperback)

From offspring of wealthy if rather bohemian parents to poetess involved with the Black Mountain group in Albuquerque to the Beats and Abstract Expressionists in New York to running a progressive literary review (El Corno) in Mexico and finally to Castro's Cuba, Margaret Randall is an example par excellence of a person who has carried political beliefs to what she would consider their only logical conclusion, or, as she quotes Eldridge Cleaver: "You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem." The book is long on process and mercifully short on rhetoric, much of it being a description of Margaret's life by her current lover Robert Cohen who went with her to Cuba - an analysis of the politicization of an upper middle-class artist who wouldn't cop-out by being co-opted, a recounting of gradual changes of consciousness that uses political ideas for psychological insight rather than propaganda. The remainder contains excerpts from Margaret's Cuban diary - very much alive, "down-to-earth" - and both pre and post Cuban poetry and translations, increasingly political but, in the largest sense, someone trying to live a philosophy rather than think one. This is a fine book, enlivening as personal didactics could never be, and truly self-critical (but never self-pitying) in the best dialectic sense - aware of problems (e.g. Latin American machismo) but not using them as a rationale to avoid commitment or making a stand for better or worse. (Kirkus Reviews)

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1973
First published:	1973
Authors:	Columbia University Press
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	206
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-0471-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups
LSN:	0-8112-0471-5
Barcode:	9780811204712

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