Last Words - essays by Margaret Randall

The legendary Margaret Randall's latest essays explore language, art, integrity, politics, and history, all through the passionate lenses of social justice and creative expression.

Praise for Last Words:

“A profound and passionate rumination on the significance of creativity and language.... Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand some of the most important questions of our times.”
— Susan Sherman, author of America’s Child: A Woman’s Journey Through the Radical Sixties

“To read Last Words is not to witness someone’s experience of the end, but to revel once again in the ongoing adventure of Randall’s imagination.”
— V. B. Price, author of Lucretius and the Logic of Venus

“In nine short, contemplative essays, Margaret Randall reflects on what has mattered most to her in her long life of social engagement, political activism, and above all poetic creativity. You can read this collection as a meditation, but also as a handbook.”
— Mary Louise Pratt, author of Planetary Longings

“Randall reveals her continuing vitality in Last Words. Luckily for us, I’m certain these won’t really be her last.”
— Greg Smith, painter

“An embrace to you, and others with you, taking on the advantage to the world with a new book by Margaret Randall. We all know she crosses rivers.”
— Bob Arnold, author of Faraway Like the Deer’s Eye