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A Working Life by Eileen Myles
Category: Poetry & Plays
From 'the closest thing we have to a celebrity poet' (Paris Review) comes a stunning new collection of euphoric, anxious and indelible poems, perfectly in tune with our strange present. The first new poetry collection since Evolution from the peerless writer, activist and poet Eileen Myles, a "Working L ...Show more
A Working Life by Eileen Myles
Category: Poetry & Plays
From the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a "Working Life" unerringly captures the measure of life. Exploring permanence and mortality, danger and safety, fear and wonder, these poems arise in the close quarters of air travel, the flashing of a landscape through a train window, in a tru ...Show more
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles
Category: Biography
Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books). This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called ...Show more
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir by Eileen Myles
Category: Biography
Eileen Myles-"a kick-ass counter-cultural icon" (New Yorker)-has written an innovative and intimate account of living with a pit bull named Rosie
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
Category: Fiction
A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from one of America's most celebrated poetsIn this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms her life into a work of art. Told in her audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate in her lyr ...Show more
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
Category: Fiction
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms her life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and disco ...Show more
Cool for You: A Novel by Eileen Myles
Category: Fiction
Eileen Myles, the popular author of Chelsea Girls and Not Me, the poet who ran an openly female campaign for president in 1992, now gives us a talking masterpiece of a novel that scratches out and rewrites the picture of what fifty years of female life looks like today. Cool For You is a darkly comic n ...Show more
Evolution by Eileen Myles
Category: Gift
This new book of poems and essays by Eileen Myles finds our game-changing writer keying lines in the euphoric style that the New York Times has called 'one of the essential voices in American poetry.'Following the critically claimed Afterglow (a dog memoir) and I Must Be Living Twice, their career-spann ...Show more
Evolution by Eileen Myles
Category: Gift
The first all-new collection of poems since 2011'sSnowflake/different streets--and following the critically acclaimedAfterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems,I Must Be Living Twice--here, inEvolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, ...Show more
For Now (Why I Write) by Eileen Myles
Category: Biography | Series: Why I Write Ser.
"[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way."--NPR In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existentia ...Show more
I Must be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014 by Eileen Myles
Category: Gift
A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favourites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of nineteen books including Chelsea Girls. Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. At once intimate and open-h ...Show more