{"product_id":"jos-mart-reader-isbn-9781644213964","title":"José Martí Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis anthology of the writing of José Martí’s features bilingual poetry, political essays, writings on Latin American culture, and his letters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosé Martí organized and unified the movement for Cuban independence and died on the battlefield. His dedication to the goal of Cuban freedom made his name a synonym for liberty throughout Latin America.\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of the writing of José Martí’s features bilingual poetry, his political essays and writings on culture, and his letters. Readers will discover a literary genius and an insightful political commentator on the troubled relationship between the United States and Latin America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Martí was the guide of his time but also stands as the anticipator of ours,” wrote Cuban revolutionary leader Carlos Rafael Rodríguez. Martí was an outstanding teacher, journalist, poet and revolutionary of his time, able to interweave the threads of Latin American culture and history.CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003eCHRONOLOGY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION by Ivan A. Schulman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 1: WRITINGS ON THE AMERICAS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitical Prison in Cuba (1871)\u003cbr\u003eThe Spanish Republic and the Cuban Revolution\u003cbr\u003e(February 15, 1873)\u003cbr\u003eThe Memorial Meeting in Honor of Karl Marx\u003cbr\u003e(March 29, 1883)\u003cbr\u003eWandering Teachers (May 1884)\u003cbr\u003eIndians in the United States (October 25, 1885)\u003cbr\u003eDedication of the Statue of Liberty (October 29, 1886)\u003cbr\u003eThe Munkácsy Christ (December 2, 1886)\u003cbr\u003eThe Funeral of the Haymarket Martyrs\u003cbr\u003e(November 13, 1887)\u003cbr\u003eThree Heroes (from The Golden Age, July–October 1889)\u003cbr\u003eMother America (December 19, 1889)\u003cbr\u003eOur America (January 1, 1891)\u003cbr\u003eSan Martín (1891)\u003cbr\u003eWith All, For the Good of All (November 26, 1891)\u003cbr\u003eOur Ideas (March 14, 1892)\u003cbr\u003eThe Cuban Revolutionary Party (April 3, 1892)\u003cbr\u003eMy Race (April 16, 1893)\u003cbr\u003eSimón Bolívar (October 28, 1893)\u003cbr\u003eThe Truth About the United States (March 23, 1894)\u003cbr\u003eManifesto of Montecristi (March 25, 1895)\u003cbr\u003eCampaign Diary (April–May 1895)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 2: LETTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLetter to mother (October 23, 1862)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to mother (November 10, 1869)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to sister Amelia (January 1882)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to General Máximo Gómez (October 20, 1884)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Fermín Valdés Domínguez (February 28, 1887)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to the Editor of the New York Evening Post\u003cbr\u003e(March 23, 1889)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to mother (May 15, 1894)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Federico Henríquez y Carvajal\u003cbr\u003e(March 25, 1895)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to mother (March 25, 1895)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to son José (April 1, 1895)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Carmen Miyares de Mantilla and her children\u003cbr\u003e(April 16, 1895)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to the New York Herald (May 2, 1895)\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Manuel Mercado (May 18, 1895)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 3: VERSE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsmaelillo\u003cbr\u003eDedication\u003cbr\u003ePríncipe Enano \/ Little Prince\u003cbr\u003eTábanos Fieros \/ Fierce Horseflies\u003cbr\u003eFree Verse\u003cbr\u003eMy Poetry\u003cbr\u003eHierro \/ Iron\u003cbr\u003eYugo y Estrella \/ Yoke and Star\u003cbr\u003eCrin Hirsuta \/ Bristling Mane\u003cbr\u003eSimple Verses\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Yo soy un hombre sincero \/\u003cbr\u003eA sincere man am I\u003cbr\u003eX. El alma trémula y sola \/\u003cbr\u003eMy soul tremulous and lonely\u003cbr\u003eXXIII. Yo quiero salir del mundo \/\u003cbr\u003eFrom this world I will depart\u003cbr\u003eXXXIX. Cultivo una rosa blanca \/\u003cbr\u003eI have a white rose to tend\u003cbr\u003eXLV. Sueño con claustros de mármol \/\u003cbr\u003eI dream of marble cloisters\u003cbr\u003eXLVI. Vierte, corazón, tu pena \/\u003cbr\u003eYour sorrows, my heart, you should hide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eENDNOTES\u003cbr\u003eBIBLIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003cb\u003eJosé Martí\u003c\/b\u003e, (born January 28, 1853, Havana, Cuba—died May 19, 1895, Dos Ríos), Cuban poet and essayist, patriot and martyr, who became the symbol of Cuba’s struggle for independence from Spain. His dedication to the goal of Cuban freedom made his name a synonym for liberty throughout Latin America. As a patriot, Martí organized and unified the movement for Cuban independence and died on the battlefield fighting for it. As a writer, he was distinguished for his personal prose and deceptively simple, sincere verse on themes of a free and united America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEducated first in Havana, Martí had published several poems by the age of 15, and at age 16 he founded a newspaper, La Patria Libre (“The Free Fatherland”). During a revolutionary uprising that broke out in Cuba in 1868, he sympathized with the patriots, for which he was sentenced to six months of hard labour and, in 1871, deported to Spain. There he continued his education and his writing, receiving both an M.A. and a degree in law from the University of Zaragoza in 1874 and publishing political essays. He spent the next few years in France, in Mexico, and in Guatemala, writing and teaching, and returned to Cuba in 1878.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIvan A. 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