Idris Robinson

Idris Robinson’s book presents a radical perspective on the role of martyrdom in the next American revolution.

Lo que hace que el libro de Idris Robinson dialogue, en una complicidad implícita, con las revueltas latinoamericanas de los últimos años y el ciclo de levantamientos experimentados en los distintos rincones del globo. En otras palabras, Escritos desde la tierra baldía es un elemento más en el debate internacional en torno al movimiento revolucionario y el desmontaje de la civilización occidental.

I hope that you, the reader in potentia, will be able to see much more powerfully the superimposed figures positively present in Robinson’s book when you open up its pages: the insurgent and the writer himself who remains valent, or else poised, like some sensitive substance hovering between different states of matter into which he might phase-shift at the slightest change in temperature or barometric pressure. At one moment, he elegantly frames his beautiful translations of Plato. At the next, he pries a brick up from the pavement in the megalopolitan whirl.