José Martí Reader : Writings on the Americas : writings on the Americas

"YMarti¤ 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. Marti transformed rebellion into revolution. . . . Like a master weaver, Marti 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. Perez Jr, author of Jose Marti in the United States "Oh Cuba! . . . the blood of Marti 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!"-Ruben Dario This new edition of an elegant anthology features bilingual poetry, a revised translation, and several new pieces. It presents the full breadth of Jose Marti'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.