A revised, expanded edition of an Ocean classic, presenting Martí the teacher, journalist, revolutionary, and poet.

“[Martí] 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. Martí transformed rebellion into revolution. . . . Like a master weaver, Martí 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. Pérez Jr, author ofJosé Martí in the United States
 
“Oh Cuba! . . . the blood of Martí 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!”—Rubén Darío
 
This new edition of an elegant anthology features bilingual poetry, a revised translation, and several new pieces. It presents the full breadth of José Martí’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.
 

JOSÉ MARTÍ READER
Writings on the Americas

Introduction by Ivan Schulman

CONTENTS:

Editor’s Preface
Introduction
Chronology

PART I: ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

Political Prison (1871)
Spanish republic and the Cuban revolution (February 15, 1873)
On the death of Karl Marx (May 13, 1883)
Wandering teachers (May 1884)
Indians in the United States (December 4, 1885)
The Munkácsy Christ (December 2, 1886)
Statue of Liberty celebrations (January 1, 1887)
Funeral of the Haymarket Martyrs (January 1, 1888)
Three heroes of the Americas (from The Golden Age, 1889)
Mother America (December 19, 1889)
Our America (January 30, 1891)
San Martín (1891)
With all, for the good of all (November 26, 1891)
Our ideas March (14, 1892)
Cuban Revolutionary Party (April 3, 1892)
My race (April 16, 1893)
Simón Bolívar (October 28, 1893)
The truth about the United States (March 23, 1894)
Manifesto of Montecristi (March 25, 1895)
Campaign diary (April-May 1995)


PART II: LETTERS

Letter to his mother (October 23, 1862)
Letter to his mother (November 10, 1869)
Letter to his sister Amelia (January 1882)
Letter to Máximo Gomez (October 20, 1884)
Letter to Fermín Valdés Domínguez (February 28, 1887)
Vindication of Cuba. To the New York Evening Post (March 25, 1889)
Letter to his mother (May 15, 1894)
Letter to Federico Henríquez y Carvajal (March 25, 1895)
Letter to his mother (March 25, 1895)
Letter to his son (April 1, 1895)
Letter to Carmen Millares de Mantilla and her children (April 16, 1895)
Letter to the New York Herald (May 2, 1995)
Letter to Manuel Mercado (May 18, 1895)



PART III: POEMS

Ismaelillo

Dedication to his son
Little prince
Fierce horseflies

Free Verse

My Poetry
Iron
Yoke and Star
Bristling Mane

Simple verses
I A sincere man am I
X My soul tremulous and lonely
XXII From this world I will depart
XXXIX I have a white rose to tend
XLV I dream of marble cloisters
XLVI Your sorrows, my heart, you should hide

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