Jose Marti Reader: Writings on the Americas

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&;Mart added a social agenda to the historic program of national liberation and instantly converted a movement devoted to the establishment of a new nation into a force dedicated to shaping a new society. Mart transformed rebellion into revolution. . . . Like a master weaver Mart pulled together all the separate threads of Cuban discontent&;social economic political racial historical&;and wove them into a radical movement of enormous force.&;&;Louis A. Prez Jr author of Jos Mart in the United States &;Oh Cuba! . . . the blood of Mart was not yours alone; it belonged to an entire race to an entire continent; it belonged to the powerful youth who have lost probably the best of teachers; he belonged to the future!&;&;Rubn Daro This new edition of an elegant anthology features bilingual poetry a revised translation and several new pieces. It presents the full breadth of Jos Mart&;s work: his political essays and writings on culture his letters and his poetry. Readers will discover a literary genius and an insightful political commentator on troubled US-Latin America relations.