Against Atrocity is Margaret Randall's first large book of poems
since Time's Language: Selected Poems 1959-2018, a major collection
covering work from 30 of her books over a period of 60 years. This
new book shows that this poet continues to be a relevant and
inspiring voice in American letters. It is also a stellar example
of contemporary, intelligent protest poetry by a significant
writer. Long known and honored for her work throughout the
Americas, she is also long admired in the LGBTQ community. Among
numerous awards, Randall was awarded the Lillian Hellman and
Dashiell Hammett grant for writers victimized by political
repression. In 2004 she was the first recipient of PEN New Mexico's
Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and Human
Rights Activism. In 2017, she was only the second American to be
awarded the prestigious Medal of Literary Merit by Literatura en el
Bravo, Chihuahua, Mexico. Nicaraguan poet Daisy Zamora writes:
"These poems restore language to its authentic meaning, remind us
of the power of words when expressing the truth, and the redeeming
potential of poetry in these terrible times." These are indeed
terrible times, ones in which we increasingly find ourselves
looking to art and creativity to lift us from the unchecked
violence, everyday frustration of deaf governance, and an
out-of-control profit motive that too often seems to bury us in a
dangerous sense of futility. Randall writes as insightfully about
the plight of a single woman or child as she does about global
warming or the mysteries of aging. In these poems we find more
questions than answers, but they are the questions we must continue
to ask ourselves in order for our humanity to survive. Against
Atrocity will also see publication this year, in completely
bilingual format, by Aguacero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And some
of the poems are included in El lenguaje del tiempo, a book-length
sampling of the poet's work coming out from El Angel Editor in
Quito, Ecuador to coincide with that country's Poesia en paralelo
cero (Poetry on the Equator), an important Latin American poetry
festival. Randall's work is being published in Cuba, throughout
South America, in Europe and Asia. She is someone who combines the
intimate with the international, our small stories with the larger
one that shapes us all. Here are poems that pierce complacency's
thick skin and provide a road map to agency and hope.
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