Eileen Myles, Author . ARRAY(0x22038f8) $12.50 (72p) ISBN 978-0-9710371-3-7
These two new books give ample evidence of the strengths and idiosyncrasies of this popular New York poet, who is probably best known (at least to the MTV crowd) for having run for president in 1992. The longer collection, Skies, beautifully...
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Eileen Myles, Author . Wave $14 (83p) ISBN 978-1-933517-20-9
In her signature short, piercingly demotic lines, Myles (Skies
) fiercely mines concatenated observations for the raw stuff: "it's like genitals/ I want to show you all these tiny parts." Myles has, by her own count, written "thousand
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Eileen Myles, Author Black Sparrow Press $15.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-87685-932-2
New York writer Myles's ( Not Me ) autobiographical adventures recount her volatile '60s adolescence littered with vibrant memories of an alcoholic father and her awakening as a writer in the '70s. Myles revisits her risk-filled past because she...
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Eileen Myles. Wave Books (Consortium, dist.), $20 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-933517-58-2
The newest from the legendary Myles (Sorry, Tree) is two books in one, printed in opposite directions in the same book, one more public-facing while the other is more private. Myles sets out “to look/ for the simplest/ & easiest/ words w/ no...
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Eileen Myles. Ecco, $26.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-238908-4
Spanning 10 books and four decades, this selected volume solidifies Myles’s reputation as both an underground star and a major force in contemporary poetry. Myles (Snowflake/Different Streets) often traffics in intimate and autobiographical details,
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Eileen Myles. Grove, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2709-9
Poet and novelist Myles (Inferno) reflects on 16 years with their pit bull Rosie. Inspired by Rosie’s death, Myles uses a pastiche approach to explore the bodily, cerebral, and esoteric/religious aspects of the grieving process, all of which is...
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Eileen Myles. Grove, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2850-8
Myles (Afterglow) returns to familiar themes in her latest collection, ruminating on sex and intimacy, dogs, politics, and New York City. The collection opens with a speech that Myles delivered at a 2017 conference on female spirituality in which...
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