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New Village Press
Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. She is the author of more than 150 published books and has translated much poetry by others. As cofounder of the bilingual journal El Corno Emplumado, she also published more than 700 writers from 35 countries. Among her recent honors are the 2019 Poet of Two Hemisphere Prize and the 2020 George Garrett Award.
MY LIFE IN 100 OBJECTS
MARGARET RANDALL
Traces the remarkable life of a feminist poet through the items and images that have defined her experiences
This book is a personal reflection on the events and moments that shaped the life and work of one extraordinary woman. With a masterful, poetic voice, Margaret Randall uses talismanic objects and photographs as launching points for her nonlinear narrative. Through each “object,” Randall uncovers another part of herself, starting in a museum in Amman, Jordan, and ending in the Latin American Studies Association in Boston. Interwoven throughout are her most precious relationships, her growth as an artist, and her brave, revolutionary spirit. As Randall’s adventures often coincide with important moments in history, many of her objects provide a transcontinental glimpse into social upheavals and transitions. She shares memories from her years in Cuba (1969 to 1980) and Nicaragua (1980 to 1984), as well as briefer periods in North Vietnam (immediately preceding the end of the war in 1975), and Peru (during the government of Velasco Alvarado). In her introduction, Randall states, “objects and places have always been alive to me.” Her history too is alive, as much of a means to consider our own present as it is to glimpse her vibrant past.
September 2020 250 pages • 5 x 8 100 color illustrations Paper • 9781613321140 • $24.00A(£18.99) Cloth • 9781613321157 • $89.00X(£74.00)
Autobiography New Village Press "A nonlinear inventory of the self by beat-expressionist-become-revolutionary poet Margaret Randall. . . . Even as they stretch all the way back to her childhood in the ’40s, or her young adulthood in the ’60s, her stories have never been more of the moment: who gets to come to this country, who gets to love whom, and every other hard-won freedom still at stake today." —Garrett Caples, City Lights Spotlight
MAIN STREET
How a City's Heart Connects Us All MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE, MD Foreword by ANDY MERRIFIELD
Traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities
How do Main Streets contribute to our mental health? This intriguing question took social psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove on an 11-year search through 178 cities in 14 countries. As Andy Merrifield notes in the foreword, “Mindy has drifted through a lot of Main Streets, walked them, observed, talked to people, ordinary people as well as professional practitioners. While she got to pace many miles of New York’s Broadway, eat French patisseries as a flâneuse in Gay Paree, sip çay in Istanbul, and chill in Kyoto’s dazzling Zen temples, her real concern is Main Street, USA, the more modest main stems of provincial America.” From these visits Fullilove has discerned the larger architecture of Main Streets. She observes the ways that Main Streets are shaped for a vast array of social gatherings and processes, how they are a marker for the integrity of civilization—and the marks aren’t always good. She also looks at Main Streets as “an allée, a way that is part drama and part quotidian. While passing through, we get to look at one another, to sing, to recognize what we are, have been, might be.” Her conclusion, that Main Streets are essential for gathering people and sharing information, emphasizes that tending our oft-neglected civic and commercial centers is a task worthy of us all.
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD is a research psychiatrist and professor of Urban Policy and Health, Milano School, The New School. She is the author of eight books, including Root Shock and Urban Alchemy. Andy Merrifield is the author of eleven books about urbanism and social theory including the forthcoming Marx, Dead and Alive (Monthly Review Press).
October 2020 352 pages • 6 x 9 175 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781613321263 • $21.95S(£16.99) Cloth • 9781613321270 • $89.00X(£74.00)
