Tongo Eisen-Martin - October 17, 2019

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Tongo Eisen-Martin

Tongo Eisen-Martin reads new work commissioned as part of the Art for Justice series. Timoteio Padilla represents Sustainable Nations in an opening presentation.

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Welcome
Description

by Tyler Meier

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Sustainable Nations
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by Timoteio Padilla

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Introduction
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by Brandon Shimoda

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"Knees Next to Their Wallets"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Blood on the Fog. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2021. 

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"Chemical Extradition"
Description

Uncollected.

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"A Good Consciousness"
Description

Uncollected.

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"No Stars Over the Trenches Tonight"
Description

Uncollected. (A different poem bearing this title appears in Eisen-Martin's 2021 collection Blood on the Fog.)

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"Lower-Class Artist Imagines"
Description

Uncollected. (A different poem bearing this title appears in Eisen-Martin's 2021 collection Blood on the Fog.)

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"Factory of Wrists"
Description

Differs very significantly from published version; only a few phrases from this draft appear in published version. 

Citation

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Blood on the Fog. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2021. 

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"Two Sides Fight"
Citation

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Blood on the Fog. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2021. 

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Track Title
"I Make Promises Before I Dream"
Description

Differs slightly from published version. 

Citation

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Blood on the Fog. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2021. 

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"A Sketch About Genocide"
Description

Differs very significantly from published version; only the final line of this draft appears in published version. 

Citation

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Blood on the Fog. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2021. 

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"Apologies, Lord"
Description

Published version bears the title "A Play in Two Parts." Differs very significantly from published version. 

Citation

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Blood on the Fog. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2021. 

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Track Title
"The Suburbs Are Finally Offended"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. "The Suburbs Are Finally Offended." Harper's (Nov. 2018). Web. Accessed 23 May 2024. 

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"I Imitate You"
Description

Differs very significantly from published version. 

Citation

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Blood on the Fog. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2021. 

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"Clocked In Still Starving"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Blood on the Fog. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2021. 

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Track Title
Excerpts from "Heaven Is All Goodbyes" and "someone's dead already"
Description

Eisen-Martin reads a selection of excerpts from his poetry collections Heaven Is All Goodbyes (2017) and someone's dead already (2015).

Citation

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. someone's dead already. Bootstrap Press, 2015. 

Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Heaven Is All Goodbyes. City Lights Books, 2017.

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Question and Answer Session
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Image
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Photographer
Patri Hadad
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