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Starfish on a Beach: The Pandemic Poems captures the fear, isolation, and horror of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Margaret Randall's poems offer solace and connection as they reflect on the changes and challenges brought about by the crisis.
This collection explores themes of social distancing, mortality, and the search for hope in uncertain times. It is for readers seeking to understand and process the pandemic's impact on society and the human condition. These poems offer concern, anger, and a vision for a different future.
Margaret Randall
Margaret Randall is a poet, writer, translator, photographer, and activist who has lived in New York, Mexico City, Havana, Cuba, Managua, Nicaragua, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, with short stays in North Vietnam and Lima, Peru. Her time in these places often coincided with major sociopolitical upheavals or pivotal historic moments. She edited an important bilingual literary magazine for eight years out of Mexico City and has known some of the great minds of her generation. When she returned to the United States, the US government ordered her deported because of opinions expressed in some of her books, and she was forced to wage a five-year battle for restoration of citizenship. Her correspondence with those she met along the way makes for exciting reading.
Randall is the recipient of numerous international awards and the author of over 200 books, four of which were published by New Village Press: My Life in 100 Objects, Artists in My Life, Risking a Somersault in the Air, and Luck.
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