LEADER 03725nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910967773203321 005 20240516111819.0 010 $a9786613051165 010 $a9781283051163 010 $a1283051168 010 $a9780803234994 010 $a0803234996 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081279 035 $a(OCoLC)712114311 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10456351 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484399 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11332407 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484399 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594536 035 $a(PQKB)10982105 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC842582 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL842582 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456351 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305116 035 $a(OCoLC)773566793 035 $a(Perlego)4519619 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081279 100 $a20100706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFirst laugh $eessays, 2000-2009 /$fMargaret Randall 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLincoln [Neb.] $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 300 $a"Four of these essays are based on talks given in different places and on different subjects. The rest are new and unpublished"-- P. 311 08$a9780803234772 311 08$a0803234775 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aA few words about these essays -- The American people -- Pumping gas -- Flying backward -- Bigger, better, best -- Race and racism: the 2008 election -- The cell remembers -- Rolling eyes -- Remembering mother -- First laugh -- Piercing the walls -- On?ate's right foot -- Can poetry matter? -- Words for El corno emplumado -- The living silence of a place like Kiet Seel -- Betrayal -- Crystal's gift -- The place where color sounds -- My losses. 330 $aConcerns about power, its use and abuse, have been at the center of Margaret Randall's work for more than fifty years. And over time Randall has acquired a power all her own, as her unique ability to observe, consider, and distill experience has drawn readers into new experiences and insights. Tempered by time and reflecting a life fully lived and richly examined, her thoughts on race, gender, poetry, landscape, cellular memory, and personal loss speak with eloquence and urgency.First Laugh invites readers to ponder the role of race and racism in the 2008 presidential election; the nature of repressed memory in understanding oneself; the place of poetry in social change; the efforts of Pueblo Indians to earn historical recompense for Spanish colonialist atrocity and subsequent abuse; and the bonds of intimacy and shared political conviction that sustain family and friendship. Over the course of her life, Margaret Randall has found herself with the abstract expressionists of the 1950s, the activists of the 1968 Mexican student movement, the Cuban revolutionaries of the 1970s, the North Vietnamese during the last years of the U.S. war, and the Sandinistas. It is our privilege to have her among us now, documenting moments at once personal and universal and showing us new ways to see. 517 3 $aEssays, 2000-2009 606 $aPoetry$xSocial aspects 606 $aFeminist criticism 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aLatin America$xSocial conditions 615 0$aPoetry$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aFeminist criticism. 676 $a306.0973 700 $aRandall$b Margaret$f1936-$0821344 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967773203321 996 $aFirst laugh$94357164 997 $aUNINA