Eileen & Friends Read Books

This site presents readers on books they've enjoyed. Write-ups can be informal, formal, long, short, in any writing style--as long as the write-ups are hopefully helpful for  bringing attention to recommended books. Click on links below to go to reading notes. Please check back since this site will be updated over time with the addition of read books. Enjoy! Information for becoming one of Eileen's Friends HERE ! Read by Eileen Tabios 2024 Measures' Measures: Poetry & Knowledge   by Michael Boughn America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan The Art Thief   by Michael Finkel METPO  by Scott MacLeod Wildflowers  by Beverly Parayno ABYSS AND SONG: Selected Poems  by George Sarantaris (Trans. from the Greek by Pria Luka) 2023 CLOSER TO LIBERATION: Pin[a/x/]y Activism in Theory and Practice . Editors Amanda Solomon Amorao, DJ Kuttin Kandi, and Jen Soriano BIBLIOLEPSY by Gina Apostol Kneel Said the Night by Margo Berdeshevsky All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost by Lan Samanth

  Reading by Rev. Dr. T.C. Marshall Blood on the Fog  by Tongo Eisen-Martin (SF, City Lights, 2021) including interview material, by Dr. T.C. Marshall   BOOK LINK   Grounded in more than just another poetry scene, the works of San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin have risen from a life of focused activism in resistance against racist state violence. His poetics developed in engagement, and his engagement with language is clearly part of that. To do the work of poetry in this way requires clear objectives but also an openness to the dialectical play of the real world. That play is stripped to its basics in an essay published at proteanmag.com in June, 2020, under the title “Alienation for my Peers”:   So what we have is normalized, institutionalized, legislated, and well-armed insanity that solidifies the position of the ruling class. And the only way to deal with this torrential insanity is with clear, sober, well-reasoned, theory-generated, praxis-tempered, committed organiz