From the beginning the idea has been to create beauty from that which is readily available in a world of hardship and extreme scarcity.
Margaret Randall
Margaret Randall (New York, 1936) is a poet, essayist, oral historian, photographer and social activist. She lived in Latin America for 23 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 work of the sixties. Randall’s most recent titles include About Little Charlie Lindbergh (poetry), Che On My Mind (a feminist poet’s reminiscence of Che Guevara), and Haydee Santamaria, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression (essay). Only The Road / Solo El Camino (a bilingual anthology of eight decades of Cuban poetry) will be out in September.