In I Never Left Home, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall tells the moving, captivating, and astonishing story of her life, from her childhood in New York to joining the Sandanista movement in Nicaragua, from escaping political repression in Mexico to raising a family and teaching college.

1. How This Book Came to Be  1
2. Where It All Started: Before My Birth and the Early Years, 1936–1947  5
3. The Landscape of Desire: High School and Beyond, 1947–1958  41
4. The Picture Plane: New York, 1958–1961  72
5. Where Stones Weep: Mexico, 1961–1969  114
6. Interlude: Escape  168
7. First Free Territory: Cuba, 1969–1980  181
8. Volcano: Nicaragua, 1980–1984  217
9. Home: 1984 and Beyond  247
Published Books  297
Notes  305
Index  315