Every Day Is an Act of Resistance:  Selected Poems by Carol Tarlen.  Edited by Julia Stein and David Joseph. Cover art by Agneta Falk. Introduction by Jack Hirschman

Carol Tarlen  was long time North Beach resident, mother, wife, activist, UCSF medical school worker and a brilliant poet.  She got arrested for Food Not Bombs as well as published widely in magazines and in every major anthology of working class poetry including American Working Class Literature:  An Anthology (Oxford University Press). She wrote poetry as if Whitman and Mother Jones were alive and writing in North Beach. She died in 2004, and Every Day Is an Act of Resistance is her first published book.

Jack Hirschman said in his his introduction, "Whether Tarlen is writing of a direct confrontation with a would-be rapist, or a love poem, or the apocalyptic compassion of perhaps her most masterfully achieved poem, the “Sisters in the Flames” revelation of the true meaning of the beginning of the 20th century .... there is in Tarlen the ability not only to evoke her own immersion in the materials, but, because of her deep-most honesty and sincerity in the process of the shaping of images as feeling, to draw the reader into the immersion as well.

Her language, that is, in its determined simplicity and directness, is the key that opens the depths of one’s heart and soul to a radiant plunge into the human condition—Jack Hirschman.

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