Blood on the fog / Tongo Eisen-Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisen-Martin, Tongo, author.

Series:

Pocket poets series ; no. 62.

Pocket poets series ; number 62

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

107 pages ; 16 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2021]

Summary:

"A rhapsodic follow-up to Tongo Eisen-Martin's Heaven is All Goodbyes, this collection further explores themes of love and loss, family and faith, refracted through the lens of Black experience. These poems honor intellectual tradition and ancestral knowledge while blazing an entirely new path, recording and replaying the poet's sensory travels through America, from its packed metropolises to desolate anytowns. Packed with politically astute and clear-eyed takes on race and class, filled with wisdom and great humanity, these poems perform mind-bending leaps and wander down back alleys to arrive at their moment of ultimate truth"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: A Good Earth

I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money

The Possibility of Being One Person

Sunday

A Sketch about Genocide

In These Swamps, a Common Name

Don't repeat your neighborhood to anyone

The Sideman on the Canvas

The hour begins again

A Play in Two Parts

Walking Around the World with this Fire

I Imitate You

Free Fear

Factory of Wrists

For the Sweetest Laugh I've Ever Known

Kick Drum Only

Soldier Clothes

Pennies for the Opera

Smooths

Knees Next to Their Wallets

The shape of state emblems

Born to Local Precincts

I Make Promises Before I Dream

Lower-Class Artist Imagines

The devil must have really needed to be a person

No One Gets Away with Mythology

Pray They Remain Formless

Newly Arranged Appetite

Clocked In Still Starving

Fomenting Poems

Two Sides Fight

The Cycle of Black Mercy

And Other Themes

No Stars Over the Trenches Tonight

I am/I am not one of you

The Chicago Prairie Fire

News of the Morning

Modern Art.

ISBN:

9780872868755

0872868753

OCLC:

1243012720