Part of the Solution: Portrait of a Revolutionary

Author: Margaret Randall

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (2001)

Part of the Solution: Portrait of a Revolutionary is a searching work, largely autobiographical in nature, by the poet, editor, and translator Margaret Randall, once an American citizen, and now living in Cuba. Included in the book are notes from Randall's diary (1970-72), detailing her day-to-day life in Cuba, and a retrospective collection of her prose, poetry, and translations written over the past several years, culminating in the fervent "I Am Attica." There is, in addition, a long and intimate introduction by Robert Cogen, her fellow activist and companion, which candidly re-explores the long, often painful journey from middle-class America to revolutionary Cuba.