Tongo Eisen-Martin
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Reading Date: Thursday, October 17, 2019
- Welcome
- Sustainable Nations
- Introduction
- "Knees Next to Their Wallets"
- "Chemical Extradition"
- "A Good Consciousness"
- "No Stars Over the Trenches Tonight"
- "Lower-Class Artist Imagines"
- "Factory of Wrists"
- "Two Sides Fight"
- "I Make Promises Before I Dream"
- "A Sketch About Genocide"
- "Apologies, Lord"
- "The Suburbs Are Finally Offended"
- "I Imitate You"
- "Clocked In Still Starving"
- Excerpts from "Heaven Is All Goodbyes" and "someone's dead already"
- Question and Answer Session
Welcome-28222
by Tyler Meier
Sustainable Nations-28271
by Timoteio Padilla
Introduction-28273
by Brandon Shimoda
"Knees Next to Their Wallets"-28275
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"Chemical Extradition"-28277
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"A Good Consciousness"-28279
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"No Stars Over the Trenches Tonight"-28281
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"Lower-Class Artist Imagines"-28397
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"Factory of Wrists"-28399
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"Two Sides Fight"-28401
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"I Make Promises Before I Dream"-28403
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"A Sketch About Genocide"-28405
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"Apologies, Lord"-28407
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"The Suburbs Are Finally Offended"-28409
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"I Imitate You"-28411
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"Clocked In Still Starving"-28413
Uncollected.
Excerpts from "Heaven Is All Goodbyes" and "someone's dead already"-28415
Eisen-Martin reads a selection of excerpts from his poetry collections Heaven Is All Goodbyes (2017) and someone's dead already (2015).
Annotation:
Eisen-Martin, Tongo. someone's dead already. Bootstrap Press, 2015.
Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Heaven Is All Goodbyes. City Lights Books, 2017.
Question and Answer Session-28417
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Series: Art for Justice, Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
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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