El Triunfo De La Vida Alive in Spite Of

Miami: Ediciones del Tauro. 1981. Softcover. Signed and inscribed by the author to Franklin and Penelope [Rosemont]. Wraps, a fine copy. Many of the poems are in English and others are in Spanish or French. Mary Low Machado (1912-2007) spoke on the radio and edited an English-language newsweekly during the Civil War in Spain in 1936. During the time she was there she worked with the POUM along with her companion, Juan Brea. Her fellow writers included Benjamin Peret, Lois Cusick (Orr) and Charles Orr, Peret was a Surrealist, and the Orrs also edited an English-language newspaper during the war. In England, she and Brea published Red Spanish Notebook, with a Preface by CLR James. The book has been reprinted by City Lights Books. After Brea died in 1941, she married Amando Machado Extra postage may be required for heavy or oversize books.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 71 pp . (Inventory #: 28177)