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PART OF THE SOLUTION PA (Paperback)
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PART OF THE SOLUTION PA (Paperback)
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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)
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