Description
Discover the profound and transformative poetry within 'Heaven Is All Goodbyes' by Tongo Eisen-Martin. This award-winning collection, shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize, symbolizes the heart of revolutionary literature. Delve into a trade paperback format, published in 2017 by City Lights Publishers, that captures a unique narrative thread connecting the experiences of grief, resistance, and the resilience of the human spirit.
Eisen-Martin's work resonates with an electrifying energy reminiscent of poetic legends such as Gil Scott-Heron and Allen Ginsberg. Readers are invited to experience a vibrant fusion of surrealism and harsh realities, where each page sings with the urgency of socio-political consciousness. This impeccable collection is not just poetry; it serves as a crucial document of our times, revealing the intricate dance between life and loss.
With transformative themes and a compelling voice, 'Heaven Is All Goodbyes' stands as a beacon of hope and resistance, making it essential for poetry lovers and advocates for social justice alike. Immerse yourself in this collection that reflects the beauty and complexity of Black love, community, and the shared journey through mourning and memory. Join the conversation on grief and life with Eisen-Martin's powerful articulation of our collective experiences.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW, ISBN: 9780872867451.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780872867451
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2017
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Description:
Shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2018 California Book Award - Poetry
2018 NCIBA Book of the Year - Poetry
The much-awaited second book by a truly revolutionary poet, in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde.
"Eisen-Martin's impeccable collection is a crucial document of this time."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
This is truly revolutionary poetry. A vortex of images, observations, inspired leaps and free associations spills forth from a choir living in oppression and transience. Moments of political and spiritual convergence, surrealism and blunt materiality, gangsterism and its husk, revolution and perseverance, are captured in the music of metaphor and pure intention.
Praise for Heaven Is All Goodbyes:
"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
"I don't know that there is a living writer whose work loves Black people as much as Tongo Eisen-Martin's work loves us. In Heaven Is All Goodbyes, like all of Eisen-Martin's work, this Black love is not clumsy, easy, sentimental or reliant on spectacle. That Black love lives in the cracked history and ambient future of who we've been in dark, and what's been done to us in the l
Eisen-Martin's work resonates with an electrifying energy reminiscent of poetic legends such as Gil Scott-Heron and Allen Ginsberg. Readers are invited to experience a vibrant fusion of surrealism and harsh realities, where each page sings with the urgency of socio-political consciousness. This impeccable collection is not just poetry; it serves as a crucial document of our times, revealing the intricate dance between life and loss.
With transformative themes and a compelling voice, 'Heaven Is All Goodbyes' stands as a beacon of hope and resistance, making it essential for poetry lovers and advocates for social justice alike. Immerse yourself in this collection that reflects the beauty and complexity of Black love, community, and the shared journey through mourning and memory. Join the conversation on grief and life with Eisen-Martin's powerful articulation of our collective experiences.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW, ISBN: 9780872867451.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780872867451
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2017
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Description:
Shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2018 California Book Award - Poetry
2018 NCIBA Book of the Year - Poetry
The much-awaited second book by a truly revolutionary poet, in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde.
"Eisen-Martin's impeccable collection is a crucial document of this time."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
This is truly revolutionary poetry. A vortex of images, observations, inspired leaps and free associations spills forth from a choir living in oppression and transience. Moments of political and spiritual convergence, surrealism and blunt materiality, gangsterism and its husk, revolution and perseverance, are captured in the music of metaphor and pure intention.
Praise for Heaven Is All Goodbyes:
"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
"I don't know that there is a living writer whose work loves Black people as much as Tongo Eisen-Martin's work loves us. In Heaven Is All Goodbyes, like all of Eisen-Martin's work, this Black love is not clumsy, easy, sentimental or reliant on spectacle. That Black love lives in the cracked history and ambient future of who we've been in dark, and what's been done to us in the l