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Fearless personal essays from a treasured feminist poet and activist Luck is a collection of essays covering such topics as memory, language, landscape, poetry, anger, sex, food, pandemics, war, violence, feminism, lies, imagination, death, power, identity, and of course luck. Some are full-blown explorations, others brief riffs. Some are prose poetry, others straightforward prose. The author combines scholarly research with personal experience, producing texts both intimate and illuminating. Always attentive to the world around her and the one within, Randall has brought us her most relevant and powerful essays to date.

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Margaret Randall has an uncanny ability to verbalize the pressing thoughts and questions that often elude us. . . . opening us to possibilities that we might otherwise never encounter, inviting us to come to our own conclusions. Partnering and paralleling Randall's words are the powerful, evocative drawings of Barbara Byers, the two creating together a work summed up perfectly by the final words of Luck: 'no metaphor... only untiring passion carrying creativity on its wings.' --Susan Sherman, founding editor of IKON Magazine and author of America's Child

"""“Margaret Randall has an uncanny ability to verbalize the pressing thoughts and questions that often elude us. . . . opening us to possibilities that we might otherwise never encounter, inviting us to come to our own conclusions. Partnering and paralleling Randall’s words are the powerful, evocative drawings of Barbara Byers, the two creating together a work summed up perfectly by the final words of Luck: ‘no metaphor… only untiring passion carrying creativity on its wings.’”"" -- Susan Sherman, founding editor of IKON Magazine and author of America’s Child"

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Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, essayist, and oral historian with a long history of social activism (in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, as well as the United States). More than 200 published books reflect her personal experience and generational struggles. She has also translated much poetry by others. In Mexico, she co-founded El Corno Emplumado, a bilingual journal that published more than 700 writers from 35 countries. Returning to the US in 1984, the government ordered her deported, claiming her writing subversive. She won her case in 1989. Among her recent awards are the Poet of Two Hemisphere Prize (Quito, Ecuador 2019) and the 2020 George Garrett Award given by AWP.

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