By Margaret Randall
More Than Things is a set of essays on numerous political, cultural, and literary matters, all associated through Margaret Randall’s consciousness to energy: its use, misuse, and effect on how we are living our lives. There are texts on intercourse, style, meals, LGBT rights, cars, forgiving, women’s self-image, writing, books, and extra. of the essays offer glimpses into present-day Cuba and Tunisia. She displays on her family members; her romantic companions; and the revolutionaries, writers, artists, and activists she has identified in my opinion and well-known: Roque Dalton, Meridel LeSueur, and Haydée Santamaría.
Randall’s writings movement in unforeseen instructions, evoked via the “things” and ideas in her lifestyles: gadgets picked up worldwide, her children’s names, relatives heirlooms, inventive practices, desires, poems, and stories. Elegantly weaving jointly the non-public and the political, More Than Things is a journey de strength via considered one of America’s so much bold and elegiac writers and political activists.
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I remember walking with him along Havana’s sea-washed malecón (its sea wall); he brought Vallejo’s difficult language as well as the time he inhabited to life. I felt as if there were three of us on those walks. When Roque was writing Miguel Mármol, I typed the text of more than a thousand pages—back when typewriters and carbon paper were our messy tools. We also sustained raucous arguments. Roque had a huge personality, a largerthan-life sensibility. He loved women and had a well-earned reputation for enjoying many and overlapping relationships.
It was there, in 1969, that Roque and I became close. He would drop by our apartment on Avenida Línea, filling the place with his high level of energy, sharp sense of humor, and profound assessment of whatever might be in the news. We lived blocks apart in Havana’s tree-shaded Vedado neighborhood, our children were friends, and we worked together in a number of cultural venues. One of these was the 1970 Premio Casa de las Américas, the yearly literary contest that was then ten years old and already one of the Spanish language’s most important prizes.
From La ventana en el rostro) 40 Roque Dalton The Crazy Ones Our names don’t fit us crazy ones. Other people wear their names like new clothes, murmur them when meeting friends, print them on little white cards that later pass from hand to hand in ordinary exchange. How happy the Alfredos and Antonios seem to be, the poor Juans and shy Sergios, the Alejandros smelling of sea! All raise their enviable names like war flags from their throats, their names that dream beneath the sod although they have gone with their bones to shadow.
