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"The legendary Margaret Randall's latest essays explore language, art, integrity, politics, and history, all through the passionate lenses of social justice and creative expression - ""a profound and passionate rumination.... Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand some of the most important questions of our times"" (Susan Sherman)."

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"""Margaret Randall's new collection of essays is a profound and passionate rumination on the significance of creativity and language. The essays in Last Words are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand some of the most important questions of our times through the experience of a woman who has devoted her life to both writing and living her words."" - Susan Sherman, author of America's Child: A Woman's Journey Through the Radical Sixties ""To read Last Words is not to witness someone's experience of the end, but to revel once again in the ongoing adventure of Randall's imagination, which welcomes our own explorations of the world revealed to us, she writes, by the 'capacity to think beyond the confines of lived experience, ' as we extend ourselves 'outward in unlimited, unexpected, and magical ways.'"" - V. B. Price, author of Lucretius and the Logic of Venus ""Once again, Margaret Randall reminds us of what our values should be.... Randall reveals her continuing vitality in Last Words. Luckily for us, I'm certain these won't really be her last."" - Greg Smith, painter ""In nine short, contemplative essays, Margaret Randall reflects on what has mattered most to her in her long life of social engagement, political activism, and above all poetic creativity. From her ode to discipline, to her review of the 'fascist arsenal, ' to her embrace of 'the ongoing wonder of being, ' you can read this collection as a meditation, but also as a handbook."" - Mary Louise Pratt, author of Planetary Longings ""An embrace to you, and others with you, taking on the advantage to the world with a new book by Margaret Randall. We all know she crosses rivers."" - Bob Arnold, author of Faraway Like the Deer's Eye"

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Margaret Randall is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, photographer, and social activist. She is the author of more than two hundred books and the recipient of many literary honors in Mexico, Cuba, Ecuador, and the United States. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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