A collection of poetry and prose, "The Marrow’s Telling" spans fifteen years, exploring how bodies carry history and identity over time. Embracing contradiction and repetition, this work maps itself around embodied experiences of disability, race, gender transgression and transition, family violence and sexuality.
Eli is the author of “Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation.” (South End Press, 1999) More recent work can be found in “GLQ: Desiring Disability–Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies,” “From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond,” “Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving” and “Self-Organizing Men: Conscious Masculinities in Time and Space.”
Selected poetry and podcasts of Eli reading his work appear below.