More Than Things

Margaret Randall is a writer and photographer. She has written dozens of books of memoir, poetry, oral history, and essays, in addition to translations, edited anthologies, and photography books. Her most recent works include To Change the World: My Years in Cuba, First Laugh: Essays 2000–2009 (Nebraska, 2011), Che on My Mind, and The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones.

"Margaret Randall is one of our cherished veteran mavericks and an intellectual of global consequence. With astonishing courage and self-criticality Randall has sought 'to restore language twisted by our sociopolitical systems' in order to provide for us 'a dignity that documents and empowers.' . . . More Than Things recounts a commitment to art and to the examined life as a quest for knowledge produced from the shockwaves of history."—Roberto Tejada, author of Full Foreground and National Camera: Photography and Mexico's Image Environment "With this amazing collection of memory and celebration, we can all benefit from Margaret Randall's brilliant, courageous, and redefining life of activism and keen observation. Everyone interested in our ongoing journey for women's rights, peace and poetry, justice and freedom, dignity and human rights for all will rush to read and gift this important, galvanizing book."—Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of The Declassified Eisenhower and the Eleanor Roosevelt volumes

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Magical SeamShaping My WordsThingsRoque Dalton: Myth, Man, Martyr, and Poet Who Defined an EraClosing the GapWhat's in a Name?New Map of Wonder to ExploreHorizonSexWheelsOur TableWhat Am I Going to Wear?Do You Really Believe All That?The Courage It TakesMirror, Mirror on the WallLord PowerThere's Plenty of Time for That LaterWhat Are They Afraid Of?Too Late BecauseKeeping Us SafePassports and MeForgiver's DilemmaGoing PlacesCuban PostcardsTunisian PostcardsGoose Quill to Thought-Capture, Stopping at BooksCoyote Grin“Star Built Memory,” Last Words of Meridel LeSueurNot for MyselfNotes