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The Wind at My Back - poems by Margaret Randall

$20.00

“This marvelous collection wraps us in its poetic gusts.” (Cheryl Clarke)

The latest poetry collection from Margaret Randall. Paperback. Publication date: January 19, 2027. Preorders will ship prior to publication.

Media mail shipping & handling starts at $5 for one book—calculated at checkout.

“This marvelous collection wraps us in its poetic gusts.” (Cheryl Clarke)

The latest poetry collection from Margaret Randall. Paperback. Publication date: January 19, 2027. Preorders will ship prior to publication.

Media mail shipping & handling starts at $5 for one book—calculated at checkout.

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The Calendar's Whim - poems by Margaret Randall
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Praise for The Wind at My Back:

“This marvelous collection wraps us in its poetic gusts and delivers this prolific writer’s lifelong riveting intelligence and compassion. I welcome her ninety-year-old voice, once again ‘reporting for duty.’”

—Cheryl Clarke, author of Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems

“Margaret Randall’s poems want, as she says, to be history lessons, to ‘interrupt the lies / that rob us of tomorrow.’ And yet, the poems insist that this need not be undertaken alone if we do not ‘insist / we are the only creatures / smart enough to manage / this world we are killing.’ The Wind at My Back makes no promises, but, when the emperor has ‘smashed / history’s knees,’ Randall’s work affords us that sliver of light we call poetry that is needed to ‘unearth every misplaced date,’ to regain ‘the courage / to sleep with memory.’”

—Judah Rubin, editor of A Perfect Vacuum

Margaret Randall, poet and author of The Calendar's Whim

About the author

Margaret Randall is a U.S. American 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.