2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the
California Independent Booksellers Alliance 2022 California Book
Award Finalist Politically astute, filled with wisdom and great
humanity, this is poetry meant to conjure a healing and provoke a
confrontation, an invitation to a journey through Black America.
"Words are not the revolution itself, Eisen-Martin seems to say,
and yet this book disturbed me more than any other I read this
year. It reminds me that poetry can rewire our thinking-can
actually change our minds-by using nothing like the rote language
we're so used to hearing in speech and in prose. It can jolt us out
of patterns, back into intelligence."-The New York Times, "The Best
Poetry of 2021" 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. Praise for Blood on
the Fog: "Continuing the lofty tradition of Langston Hughes, June
Jordan, and Amiri Baraka, Tongo Eisen-Martin has emerged on center
stage as today's premier revolutionary poet. A master craftsman and
a sensitive artist, he reserves his sledgehammer words for the
cruelty of imperialism. He should not only be read-he should be
studied."-Gerald Horne "In Blood on the Fog, find a poetry of
'swinging type body language' where the swinging swings like
Ellington and Ali combined, knocking you out inside and out, and
turning you around in this extraordinary book."-Terrance Hayes
"Black poetry has got to get its head around the deranged way
language and the world expect us to be and live again. Tongo has
figured this out, is feeling out how to vein the poem with his own
life, and that's why I love his work."-Simone White "This is no
precious, immortal-aspirational monologue; no autocrat stone of
finality; no poor folks as thought experiments. More fugue than
state. More disturbance as the groove. If poems are for anything, I
feel like it must be this."-Justin Phillip Reed "Blood on the Fog
is the illest artifact of time travel I've ever experienced. Tongo
Eisen-Martin takes us to a tomorrow and yesterday where we
stand-contorted and mangled-but oh so beautiful, faithful and
free."-Kiese Laymon "Whether speaking rhyme in slant, calling
forward Medgar Evers, or the spirituality of an oppressed people,
Eisen-Martin offers stanza after stanza as a sunrise. Each poem
leads us towards our liberation. This means these poems are heavy
in their desire to free our current state of stoic apathy. This
means Tongo Eisen-Martin's poetic legacy will live
forever."-Mahogany L. Browne
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
(1)
