Fearless personal essays from a treasured feminist poet and activist
Luck is a collection of essays covering such topics as memory, language, landscape, poetry, anger, sex, food, pandemics, war, violence, feminism, lies, imagination, death, power, identity, and of course luck. Some are full-blown explorations, others brief riffs. Some are prose poetry, others straightforward prose. The author combines scholarly research with personal experience, producing texts both intimate and illuminating. Always attentive to the world around her and the one within, Randall has brought us her most relevant and powerful essays to date.

"“With essays on everything from Aging to 9/11 to a manifesto/litany on Anger, from poetic meditations on the weather to memory itself, Truth is Margaret Randall’s essential philosophy. She is there in the pantheon with Gwendolyn Brooks, June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, Wanda Coleman, Audre Lorde. Her humanity and humor, her comedy and tragedy, her activism and her love, all that Margaret Randall is, is the definition of a poet.”" - poet, filmmaker, and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club

"“Luck is both a collection of concise and adventurous philosophical essays by one of the modern world’s great poets, Margaret Randall, and a series of equally adventurous visual thought drawings by her life partner, the master generative artist and teacher, Barbara Byers. Both explore territory that cannot be experienced without the willing energy and daring that takes them beyond what even they might have expected from themselves in a process of creative exploration.”" - author of Memoirs of the World in 10 Fragments and Lucretius and the Logic of Venus