(n.p.), New Rivers Press, (1968). The first book published by New Rivers Press, a collection of poetry that "came out of the death and rebirth in revolutionary Cuba" in 1967, where Randall visited with some 80 other poets in January-February in 1967, on the centenary of the birth of Ruben Dario. Inscribed by Randall to the British playwright Arnold Wesker (who staged his play "The Four Seasons" in Cuba in 1968). Together with the carbon typescript of the book, with Randall's name and Mexican address typed on the cover sheet, and mentioning a planned deluxe edition to be published by C.W. Truesdale's press in Nyack and a popular edition by Guerilla Press; as it turned out, Truesdale did the popular edition, this one, and there was no other. Also together with the carbon typescript of a one-paragraph explication by Randall on the book's creation, dated December, 1967. The explication appears in heavily truncated form in the book. This page is heavily edge-worn, and like the typescript is on thin air mail paper, folded in half and edge-creased. The latter is stapled in the upper left corner. The book has a small amount of light dampstaining surrounding the lower spine; very good in stapled wrappers. Randall, in addition to being a poet, co-founded El Corno Emplumado, a bilingual literary journal in Mexico which featured new writing from the Americas and elsewhere, until it was forced to close by the Mexican government after her outspoken support of the Mexican student movement in 1968, and her criticism of the Mexican government's violent and deadly response to it. Randall moved to Cuba for a number of years after this book was published; on her return to the U.S. she was deported under a McCarthy-era law for her political views; she won her court case five years later, with the help and support of a large segment of the literary community. [#032313] SOLD