"Margaret Randall's extraordinary new collection explores a world in which story is life and time is mutable. The space-time continuum gives way to a story-time continuum as clocks reverse their flow and memory lifts a grieving woman in its arms. Centuries and borders collapse, we travel through mirrors, dreamlands, and sliding doors, finding ourselves in photographs that point to a future as much as a past. In 'Scheherazade's New World,' Randall writes, 'It is what you commit to memory and store for future reference that matters.' My future reference has been forever enriched by this portal into the possibilities of then, now, and when." --Lisa Birman, author of How to Walk Away "Margaret Randall, known for her poetry, translations and memoir, extends her world-absorbing art with this new collection, Lupe's Dream and Other Stories . We find here unvarnished reality combined with sensitivity to the interpersonal dynamics of experience intersecting with social and political forces that affect us all--and Randall pulls this off with the acute clarity that has distinguished her remarkable body of work to date. With her compassion and unflinching eye, Randall renders the human experience in fluid, magical, real-as-stone stories, moving through first person and third person experiences with the effortlessness of a spirit traveling through lives.

As always, Randall's work presents us with a keen witness, giving us new eyes to see the world in a nutshell of beauty and truth." --Douglas Cole, author of the poetry collections The Blue Island and The Gold Tooth in the Crooked Smile of God , as well as the novel The White Field (American Fiction Award) Critical Praise for Out of Violence into Poetry: Poems 2018-2021: " Out of Violence into Poetry by Margaret Randall represents the height of poetry written in any language in the last hundred years and constitutes the broadest, most generous, penetrating and most profound gamble on the part of an extraordinary human being, an extraordinary life and work, on that which we call future. This book--concrete, situated, tangible in its truth and commitment, in its fierce and corrosive irony and public kindness and compassion--creates a fresco that is at once compendium and legacy." --Raul Zurita, Chile's National Literature Prize (2000) and the Pablo Neruda Award (1988) "These poems are like a shield. As one reads them, they become a gentle sailboat plowing the Southern seas as a few fish, algae, moons and stones leap around it--thrown against its timeless journey--its primary nourishment. The sun beyond. An itinerant beating heart, out of violence into poetry." --Nancy Morejón, National Literature Prize, Cuba 2001.