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Margaret Randall has contributed poetry, essays, translations, and oral histories to the public discourse since the 1960s. Here, she assembles many of the prose works largely lost to time that demonstrate the arc of her thinking, from keynote addresses to informal talks and essays published long ago. More recent work reflects her fierce need to address topics about which she has new things to say. The essays range from photography to translation, social justice to creative expression. This deep collection bridges periods of our history and hers, contributing to the complex weave produced by Randall's generation of thinkers and makers.

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""Margaret Randall's Pages Lost and New is a rebel yell testament to the power of revolutionary identity and political commitment. It is essential reading for any of us hungry for firsthand accounts of how social movements, literary ecosystems, and lesbian politics come together to challenge oppressive power structures. Randall has been on the frontlines and shares her insights for revolutionary continuity from her journeys to different leftist corners and strongholds around the world. For me, Randall is a shining light of compañerismo."" - Raquel Gutiérrez, author of Brown Neon ""A bold, thoughtful collection that blends an artist's eye for detail, a poet's rhythm, and an activist's call to action. In documenting the range of her lived experience in different places, languages, and social roles, Randall crafts a compelling read that is both memoir and compendium of her ideas. Essays written more than two decades ago feel strikingly prescient, as her deft editorial touch frames past political and social concerns for today's audience. Across topics ranging from a photographer's choices to the art of translation, she probes ethical dilemmas through her lens as a seasoned artist and activist."" - Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Professor of Philosophy, Gallaudet University ""Never wavering in her conviction that writers can shape the past, present, and future, Margaret Randall continues well into her ninth decade to produce fascinating work. Her incredible, iconoclastic journey through the revolutionary movements of Latin America and the United States reveals so much about a generation who believed they could remake the world, and who took it into their own hands to do so. These pages, fervent and unstoppable in their search for truth and justice, are as unique and unapologetic as the woman who wrote them."" - Karín Aguilar-San Juan, co-editor of The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement

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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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