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This is a gallery of work specially created for #ThinAir2023. Spend time with writers you love, and discover some new favourites! Ceci est une galerie de travaux spécialement créée pour #ThinAir2023. Passez du temps avec des écrivains que vous aimez et découvrez de nouveaux favoris!Tongo Eisen-Martin is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco, California. He is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, received the California Book Award for Poetry, an American Book Award, and a PEN Oakland Book Award. He is also the author of someone's dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015). Blood on the Fog, his newest collection of poems, is volume 62 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series.
Interview / Entrevue
My mother was a voracious reader who more than any other activity was a fan of me reading (anything). So there wasn’t a book I had to hide. Everything could be used to build muscle.
“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.” Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
My desk is so cluttered, I end up using my mattress as a desk (that is also fairly cluttered).
Late stage imperialism, climate catastrophe, and the internalized hegemony that both thrive on.
Enlightenment though I seriously, seriously doubt it will ever happen.
