One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature--honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.--Dennis Cooper [Myles' writing] comes across simultaneously as effortless and utterly gorgeous...To be able to write with such gentleness and force all at the same time is such a gift, and Myles is completely generous in how she uses this.--Ron Silliman Two books meet as one in legendary poet, critic, and novelist Eileen Myles' newest collection. In a world overflowing with technology and its mutant offspring, moments of human ecstasy and connection are as indelible as they are fleeting. Indeed, with every page, the poems of Snowflake and different streets create poet and poem anew. some cars seem to erupt from the tar itself they seem to pull themselves up from below the surface of the land though I don't think land. I mean something flat, something black almost like a water that we're on though a dark water that holds us. Eileen Myles has published more than a dozen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction. She was recently awarded the 2010 Shelley Memorial Award for poetry and, for her novel Inferno, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. She lives in New York.
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Weight: 243g
Dimensions: 127 x 177mm
Publication Date: 19 Apr 2012
Publisher: Wave Books
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781933517582
About Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge Mass. in 1949 was educated in catholic schools graduated from U. Mass. (Boston) in 1971 and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. She quickly became part of the reading publishing and performance scene in the East Village editing dodgems in the late '70s and becoming part of the community of St. Mark's Poetry Project where she studied and was friends with Ted Berrigan Alice Notley Paul Violi and Bill Zavatsky. In 1979 she was assistant to poet James Schuyler. She was Artistic Director of the Poetry Project 1984-86. Myles is a vivid interpreter of her own work and travels widely in the US and Canada and internationally giving readings and performances. In 2007 she published Sorry Tree (Wave Books) the latest of more than a dozen volumes of poetry fiction and nonfiction including Chelsea Girls Not Me Skies The New Fuck You/adventures in lesbian reading Cool for You and The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art. Her most recent book is Inferno (A Poet's Novel) published by OR books. A new book of poems Snowflake / different streets will be published by Wave Books in 2011. She wrote the libretto for Hell an opera with music composed by Michael Webster which was performed on both coasts 2004-2006. In 2007 she received The Warhol/Creative Capital art writers' grant. In 2010 the Poetry Society of America gave her the Shelley Memorial Award. She contributes to a wide number of publications including ArtForum Bookforum Parkett and The Believer. She's a Prof. Emeritus at UC San Diego where she taught for five years. She lives in New York.
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