Books by Margaret Randall

In I Never Left Home, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall tells the moving, captivating, and astonishing story of her life, from her childhood in New York to joining the Sandanista movement in Nicaragua, from escaping political repression in Mexico to raising a family and teaching college.

In the early 1980s, in the midst of Central America's decades of dirty wars, Nora Miselem of Honduras and Maria Suarez Toro of Costa Rica were kidnapped and subjected to rape and other tortures. Here, Margaret Randall recounts the terror, resistance and remarkable survival of the two women.

In this intimate portrait, Margaret Randall tells the story of Haydee Santamaria, the only woman to participate in every phase of the Cuban Revolution. Although unknown outside Cuba, Santamaria was part of Fidel Castro's inner circle and played a key role in post-revolutionary Cuba's political and artistic development.

Sandino's Daughters, Margaret Randall's conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the lives of a group of extraordinary female revolutionaries to the American and world public. The book remains a landmark. Now, a decade later, Randall returns to interview many of the same women and others.

A collection of poems by Margaret Randall which she describes as her "impossible poems" - the ones which speak of things that can't be said.

Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in healthcare, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports to show how this outreach is a fundamental characteristic of the Revolution and of Cuban society.