Selected Writings

CONTENTS José Martí: An Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría ............................ ix Chronology ................................................. xxvii Suggestions for Further Reading ............................ xxxiii EARLIEST WRITINGS ........................................... 1 Abdala ................................................... 3 Letter to His Mother from Prison ......................... 7 Political Prison in Cuba ................................. 9 1871-1881 ................................................... 19 Notebooks 1-3 ........................................... 21 Early Journalism ............................................ 26 The Poor Neighborhoods of Mexico City ................... 26 Sarah Bernhardt ......................................... 28 Impressions of America (by a very fresh Spaniard) ....... 32 1882-1890 ................................................... 41 Poetry .................................................. 43 Prologue to Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde's Poem of Niagara ..................................... 43 Ismaelillo .............................................. 52 Waking Dream / Sueño despierto ...................... 52 Fragrant Arms / Brazos fragantes .................... 53 My Kinglet / Mi reyecillo ........................... 53 Son of My Soul / Hijo del alma ...................... 54 Free Verses / Versos libres ............................. 56 My Verses ........................................... 57 The Swiss Father / El padre suizo ................... 58 Famous Island / Isla famosa ......................... 60 Love in the City / Amor de ciudad grande ............ 62 I Hate the Sea / Odio el mar ........................ 66 Winged Cup / Copa con alas .......................... 68 Notebooks 4-15 .......................................... 72 Undated Fragment ........................................ 78 A Passion ............................................... 79 from The Golden Age ......................................... 82 Pin the Tail on the Donkey: A New Game and Some Old Ones ... 83 Letters from New York ....................................... 89 Coney Island ............................................ 89 The Trial of Guiteau .................................... 94 Prizefight ............................................. 107 Emerson ................................................ 116 Tributes to Karl Marx, Who Has Died .................... 130 from La América ............................................ 140 The Brooklyn Bridge .................................... 140 The Glossograph ........................................ 145 Indigenous Art ......................................... 146 Mexico, the United States, and Protectionism ........... 149 Graduation Day ......................................... 152 The Indians in the United States ........................... 157 The World's Biggest Explosion .............................. 164 Impressionist Painters ..................................... 167 A Great Confederate Celebration ............................ 171 The Cutting Case ........................................... 176 The Poet Walt Whitman ...................................... 183 Class War in Chicago: A Terrible Drama ..................... 195 A Walking Marathon ......................................... 219 New York Under Snow ........................................ 225 Blaine's Night ............................................. 231 A Chinese Funeral .......................................... 237 Inauguration Day ........................................... 244 Political Correspondence ................................... 255 Letter to Emilio Núñez ................................. 255 Letter to General Máximo Gómez ......................... 257 A Vindication of Cuba .................................. 261 1891-1894 .................................................. 269 Poetry ................................................. 270 Simple Verses / Versos sencillos ....................... 270 Prologue ........................................... 270 I (I am an honest man / Yo soy un hombre sincero) ... 272 XI (I hate the masks and vices / Odio la máscara y vicio) ... 276 XXVIII (Past the manor with the tomb / Por la tumba del cortijo) ....................... 278 XXX (Blood-hued lightning cleaves / El rayo surca, sangriento) ...................... 280 XXXVI (Yes, I know: flesh / Ya sé: de carne se puede) ... 282 XLV (I dream of marble cloisters / Sueño con claustros de mármol) .................. 282 Notebooks 18-20 ............................................ 286 Letters from New York ...................................... 288 Our America ............................................ 288 The Lynching of the Italians ........................... 296 The Monetary Conference of the American Republics ...... 304 A Town Sets a Black Man on Fire ........................ 310 from Patria ................................................ 314 The Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico ................ 314 My Race ................................................ 318 To Cuba! ............................................... 321 The Truth About the United States ...................... 329 1895 ....................................................... 335 Politics ............................................... 337 The Montecristi Manifesto .......................... 337 Final Correspondence ....................................... 346 Letter to His Mother ................................... 346 Letter to Manuel Mercado ............................... 346 War Diaries ................................................ 350 Part I: From Montecristi to Cap-Haitien ................ 350 Part II: From Cap-Haitien to Dos Ríos .................. 380 Afterword by Esther Allen .................................. 415 Notes ...................................................... 419 Index ...................................................... 449