Authors: Jose Marti, Esther Allen (Translator), Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
ISBN-13: 9780142437049, ISBN-10: 0142437042
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
José Martiacute (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning his living as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Martí's were the eyes through which much of Latin America saw the United States. His impassioned, kaleidoscopic evocations of that period in U.S. history, the assassination of James Garfield, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the execution of the Chicago anarchists, the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans, and much more, bring it rushing back to life.
Organized chronologically, this collection begins with his early writings, including a thundering account of his political imprisonment in Cuba at age sixteen. The middle section focuses on his journalism, which offers an image of the United States in the nineteenth century, its way of life and system of government, that rivals anything written by de Tocqueville, Dickens, Trollope, or any other European commentator. Including generous selections of his poetry and private notebooks, the book concludes with his astonishing, hallucinatory final masterpiece, "War Diaries", never before translated into English.
Jose Marti: An Introduction | ||
Chronology | ||
Suggestions for Further Reading | ||
Earliest Writings | 1 | |
Abdala | 3 | |
Letter to His Mother from Prison | 7 | |
Political Prison in Cuba | 9 | |
1871-1881 | 19 | |
Notebooks 1-3 | 21 | |
Early Journalism | 26 | |
The Poor Neighborhoods of Mexico City | 26 | |
Sarah Bernhardt | 28 | |
Impressions of America (by a very fresh Spaniard) | 32 | |
1882-1890 | 41 | |
Poetry | 43 | |
Prologue to Juan Antonio Perez Bonalde's Poem of Niagara | 43 | |
Ismaelillo | 52 | |
Waking Dream | 52 | |
Fragrant Arms | 53 | |
My Kinglet | 53 | |
Son of My Soul | 54 | |
Free Verses | 56 | |
My Verses | 57 | |
The Swiss Father | 58 | |
Famous Island | 60 | |
Love in the City | 62 | |
I Hate the Sea | 66 | |
Winged Cup | 68 | |
Notebooks 4-15 | 72 | |
Undated Fragment | 78 | |
A Passion | 79 | |
from The Golden Age | 82 | |
Pin the Tail on the Donkey: A New Game and Some Old Ones | 83 | |
Letters from New York | 89 | |
Coney Island | 89 | |
The Trial of Guiteau | 94 | |
Prizefight | 107 | |
Emerson | 116 | |
Tributes to Karl Marx, Who Has Died | 130 | |
from La America | 140 | |
The Brooklyn Bridge | 140 | |
The Glossograph | 145 | |
Indigenous Art | 146 | |
Mexico, the United States, and Protectionism | 149 | |
Graduation Day | 152 | |
The Indians in the United States | 157 | |
The World's Biggest Explosion | 164 | |
Impressionist Painters | 167 | |
A Great Confederate Celebration | 171 | |
The Cutting Case | 176 | |
The Poet Walt Whitman | 183 | |
Class War in Chicago: A Terrible Drama | 195 | |
A Walking Marathon | 219 | |
New York Under Snow | 225 | |
Blaine's Night | 231 | |
A Chinese Funeral | 237 | |
Inauguration Day | 244 | |
Political Correspondence | 255 | |
Letter to Emilio Nunez | 255 | |
Letter to General Maximo Gomez | 257 | |
A Vindication of Cuba | 261 | |
1891-1894 | 269 | |
Poetry | 270 | |
Simple Verses | 270 | |
Prologue | 270 | |
I (I am an honest man) | 272 | |
III (I hate the masks and vices) | 276 | |
XXVIII (Past the manor with the tomb) | 278 | |
XXX (Blood-hued lightning cleaves) | 280 | |
XXXVI (Yes, I know: flesh) | 282 | |
XLV (I dream of marble cloisters) | 282 | |
Notebooks 18-20 | 286 | |
Letters from New York | 288 | |
Our America | 288 | |
The Lynching of the Italians | 296 | |
The Monetary Conference of the American Republics | 304 | |
A Town Sets a Black Man on Fire | 310 | |
from Patria | 314 | |
The Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico | 314 | |
My Race | 318 | |
To Cuba! | 321 | |
The Truth About the United States | 329 | |
1895 | 335 | |
Politics | 337 | |
The Montecristi Manifesto | 337 | |
Final Correspondence | 346 | |
Letter to His Mother | 346 | |
Letter to Manuel Mercado | 346 | |
War Diaries | 350 | |
Pt. I | From Montecristi to Cap-Haitien | 350 |
Pt. II | From Cap-Haitien to Dos Rios | 380 |
Afterword | 415 | |
Notes | 419 | |
Index | 449 |