Blood on the Fog // Pocket Poets Series No. 62

Blood on the Fog // Pocket Poets Series No. 62

2017) • Tongo Eisen-Martin

ISBN-10: 0872868753 · ISBN-13: 978‑0872868755 · 2021

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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. Radical, outraged, knowing, wry, and deeply humane, these are poems of survival that soar with a vision of collective liberation. Tongo Eisen-Martin is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco, California. He is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, received the California Book Award for Poetry, an American Book Award, and a PEN Oakland Book Award. He is also the author of someone's dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015). Blood on the Fog , his newest collection of poems, is volume 62 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series.

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