GAMH is extremely proud to present the debut record release show of San Francisco's poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin.
Celebrating the release of "I Go To The Railroad Tracks And Follow Them To The Station Of My Enemies", the extraordinary debut recorded work of one of the most acclaimed young poets of our time.
Released by SF's own Rocks In Your Head Records, this landmark release is poised to become a legendary debut by a powerful, once in a generation, talent.
Appearing alongside Tongo will be poet Poverty Skola, musician Josiah Y Flores, and very special guests TBA.
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Heaven Is All Goodbyes published by City Lights Books.
"The tesseraic language of Tongo Eisen Martin's Heaven Is All Goodbyes brings a new, shared articulation to the intricacies and interconnections of grief and life, speech and site, state and inhabitant, violence and landscape. Here, polyvocal assemblages gather and revolt against our 'porcelain epoch / succeeding for the most part / dying for the most part / married for the most part to its death.' This is resistance as sound."--Claudia Rankine
Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry book, someone's dead already, and his poetry has been featured in Harper's Magazine. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, "We Charge Genocide Again!" has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country.
GAMH is extremely proud to present the debut record release show of San Francisco's poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin.
Celebrating the release of "I Go To The Railroad Tracks And Follow Them To The Station Of My Enemies", the extraordinary debut recorded work of one of the most acclaimed young poets of our time.
Released by SF's own Rocks In Your Head Records, this landmark release is poised to become a legendary debut by a powerful, once in a generation, talent.
Appearing alongside Tongo will be poet Poverty Skola, musician Josiah Y Flores, and very special guests TBA.
~~~~~~~~~
Heaven Is All Goodbyes published by City Lights Books.
"The tesseraic language of Tongo Eisen Martin's Heaven Is All Goodbyes brings a new, shared articulation to the intricacies and interconnections of grief and life, speech and site, state and inhabitant, violence and landscape. Here, polyvocal assemblages gather and revolt against our 'porcelain epoch / succeeding for the most part / dying for the most part / married for the most part to its death.' This is resistance as sound."--Claudia Rankine
Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry book, someone's dead already, and his poetry has been featured in Harper's Magazine. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, "We Charge Genocide Again!" has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country.
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