The Calendar's Whim - poems by Margaret Randall (PRESALE)

The latest poetry collection from the legendary Margaret Randall reveals a poet still elevating her craft. “Margaret Randall remains very much a poet of now, not in spite but because of her long and distinguished history.” (Garrett Caples)

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Praise for The Calendar’s Whim:

“Her fearlessness is by no means limited to ideological struggle… among the most affecting poems in The Calendar’s Whim are those confronting the fear of death that looms at her age, a subject she approaches with the same refusal of shame and self-pity that characterizes her earlier writings on sexual assault and incest. As she has always protested, she is not a ‘political poet’; she refuses that level of compartmentalization in favor of presenting the whole package of human experience. Life itself is her subject.”

—Garrett Caples, author of Lovers of Today

“The poet in me speaks to the world, and I am part of the world, says Randall, where writing is her way of harvesting and dispersing fruits of memory and knowledge. She explores the liminal spaces of existence, possible when less busy, with slow curiosity. Vast themes ignite these poems: colonization, racism, lesbian love, resistance, art, climate catastrophe, family, aging and community. This is a book suffused with curiosity and wisdom, and bears witness to past and current times of struggle and resistance.”

—Tina Carlson, award-winning author of A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery

“For as long as I’ve had the distinct pleasure of knowing Margaret Randall and her work, neither she nor her work have ever shied from the penetrating questions…. Much like the Roque that Randall writes about in The Anniversaries, she’s proving to be timeless. Her poems in this collection, however, continue to age with the times.”

—Hakim Bellamy, Albuquerque Poet Laureate Emeritus and author of Commissions y Corridos

“In The Calendar’s Whim, celebrated poet and activist Margaret Randall assumes her role as sage and seer to remind us of the deep-rooted power of chronicle in our struggle for a more human world…. Indeed, these pages are a resounding testament to the sway of poetry—nearer to truth than history. ”

—Katherine M. Hedeen, translator of Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses