Wild Card - poems by Margaret Randall

The latest poetry collection from the legendary Margaret Randall showcases some of her finest work yet. "A stunning achievement by one of the great poets of our time" (Minrose Gwin).

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Praise for Wild Card:

“In these dark times, the poems in Margaret Randall’s Wild Card stoke the light of the imagination and stir the embers of social justice. As a poet and essayist, Randall has always called out to our better selves, reminding us of our responsibilities to one another. And yet there’s an iridescence to this volume, written in Randall’s eighties, that comes from layers of life being distilled and compressed. These are poems that nourish the soul and the ear: a long cool drink from Margaret Randall’s deep well of wisdom, telling the age-old story of the power of art for the good—how ‘imagination is [our] wild card’ as human beings, our gift and our responsibility. A stunning achievement by one of the great poets of our time.”

—Minrose Gwin, author of The Queen of Palmyra and Beautiful Dreamers

“Margaret Randall is ever sensitive to the distant roar, the body in the world, the movement of words across a line. These expansive and bold poems weave personal and communal witness, and confront us to attention in our increasingly dark world.”

—Kenny Fries, award-winning author of In the Province of the Gods

“Here are Margaret Randall’s keenest, sharpest words yet. All poetry creates something from nothing; Randall, however, transforms ‘from absence to awe,’ her global journeys winding here, to this book, just when we need it most—before she imagines the next thing, and the next, leaving us with this moment in her life’s work to nourish us and inspire us.”

—Zach Hively, author of the Reading the West Book Award recipient Desert Apocrypha