Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises - Margaret Randall and Barbara Byers

The legendary feminist and revolutionary Margaret Randall once again turns her eye to keen, insightful poetry. Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises is both political and personal as one, with turns into mythology and language. For the first time, this book publishes Randall alongside her longtime partner (now wife), the visual artist Barbara Byers, whose boldly textured black-and-white photography accompanies the written work. Their brilliance, put together, results in a collection with all the power and beauty of a looming storm.

The limited hardcover edition is a jacketed case laminate book, signed by the author & artist and numbered out of 100—available exclusively through Casa Urraca Press. The bookstore edition is run on 70# paper with a matte laminate finish on the paperback cover.

Praise for Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises:

"Two dedicated artists at the peak of their powers have given us a moving book of call-and-response in poetry and photography. Margaret Randall and Barbara Byers share brilliant repetitions of light formed by shadow and name every death an act of survival. We are challenged and honored by this work."

-Rosemary Catacalos, 2013 Texas Poet Laureate

"The tight black and white composition, absent any distracting color, and the crisp focus bring you incisively to the heart of the matter. But, more importantly, a tonality and resolution suggestive of a camera much larger than [Byers'] chosen cellphone yield textures that makes you want to touch them."

-Rupert Chambers, fine art photographer

"In Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises is found, in its fullest splendor, the poetry that has characterized Margaret Randall for more than sixty years. In short, with these poems, Margaret Randall reaffirms herself as one of our most lucid and tireless minds, as one of the voices of our time that deserve to be followed with diligence and devotion."

-Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, author of With a Strange Scent of World