Acknowledgments  ix

1. A Death That Leads Us Back to Life  1

2. In Cuba, Where Our Lives Came Together in the Everyday  11

3. Multiple Prisms  19

4. Conflicting Versions  29

5. "Socialism and Man in Cuba"  35

6. Tender Heart and Rigorous Moral Code  43

7. Empowerment of the Erotic  51

8. How the Man Was Made  59

9. Che and Fidel  67

10. Che and Haydée  75

11. Exercising Power, Exercising Solidarity  87

12. The Question without an Answer  95

13. War and Peace  99

14. Revolution and Religion  115

15. Che's Legacy for Today's Activists  125

16. Poetry Closes the Circle and Opens Infinite Circles  133

Notes  139

Bibliography  147

“A well-written, brief reflection on Guevara and his time that will interest historians and social theorists.”—Boyd Childress, Library Journal

“These personal essays on and acute observations of Che Guevara’s legacy achieve insight into his enduring appeal to young revolutionaries.”—Edward Morris, Foreword Reviews

“A well-written, brief reflection on Guevara and his time that will interest historians and social theorists.”—Boyd Childress, Library Journal

“These personal essays on and acute observations of Che Guevara’s legacy achieve insight into his enduring appeal to young revolutionaries.”—Edward Morris, Foreword Reviews

"Thoughtfully exploring the complex and contested record of the life and work of Che Guevara, Margaret Randall—with, as she says, 'the intuition of a poet'—presents a compelling personal meditation on a figure who has inspired legions of people, young and old, throughout the world, who struggle for a more just and decent human existence."—Noam Chomsky

"In Che on My Mind, the poet Margaret Randall, who was one of the founders of the influential sixties bilingual journal El Corno Emplumado (The Plumed Horn), assesses Che Guevara's enduring influence while confronting her own doubts and uncertainties over his justification of violence and armed struggle. She asks whether we can admire Guevara's commitment and generosity of spirit and still disagree with war as a strategy. Acknowledging that her own attitudes to Che have changed with age, her book is a frank assessment of Che's failures of judgment as well as of his charisma, and of his contradictory status as both saint and cowboy."—Jean Franco, author of Cruel Modernity

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