Memory Says Yes
Margaret Randall
Randall gained some notoriety when the INS attempted to deport her under the McCarran-Walter Act, despite the fact that she was born an American citizen. The incident seems to have affected Randall deeply, for many of her poems explore the idea of ‘home.’ She speaks of ‘my body coming home,’ of ‘Always going home,’ of ‘a place to be home,’ and finally ‘When she goes home at last.’ Her political views are apparent in many poems; and though poetry is sometimes sacrificed to polemics, the voice is always compassionate as well as committed. ‘Lovers can live in the world/ if they work at it,’ says Randall, who seems willing to do that work in her poems, where she seems most at home.Grace Bauer, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ.
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Review
All Last Week
Be Good, Successful, Be At Home
Bear Lake
Blood Loosens Its Stranglehold
Coatlicue
Control
The Day We Found The Rings
Election Notes
Fierce
Get Going
The Gloves
Go With Your Life, The Water Says
The Green Clothes Hamper
Guilty Of Innocence
The Hem Of My Skirt
Horizon
I Will Name It
Immigration Law
Kaleidoscope
Killing The Saint
Letter From Managua / One
Letter From Managua / Two
Like Beads
Listening
Litany
Lizard
A Man Has Gone Back
Memory Says Yes
The Morning I Dreamed My Children
My Other Country
Myself, Regrouping
Normal
Polar Bears And Rabbit Watching The Northern Lights
Remaining Option 1
Remaining Option 2
Remaining Option 3
The Second Photograph
Someone Trusted Has Used Force
Star 80
Talk To Me
These Our Hands
Under Attack
Under The Stairs
Variation On The Door
Vietnam War Memorial 1
Vietnam War Memorial 2
What Part Will Be Safe
When It Snows Like This
With Apologies To Nancy Drew
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| ISBN | 9780915306770 |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publication Date | 01-Jul-95 |
| Publisher | Curbstone Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 80 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| BookID | 8236 |
