Selected works new and old from the celebrated poet and radical icon
Eileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, and most recently, I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems 1975-2014. Their many honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, four Lambda Literary Awards, the Clark Prize for Excellence in Art Writing, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and their poems were featured in seasons two and three of the Emmy-winning show Transparent. They live in Marfa, Texas, and New York City.
A genuinely challenging writer whose time has certainly come.
*TLS*
It has taken time for the literary world to catch up with Myles's
politics and poetics... [has] a modern, light-footed technique,
which delights in skilfully switching perspectives between one line
and the next.
*Sunday Times*
When Myles is described as an "avant-garde" poet, it makes her art
sound difficult and intimidating. It isn't.
*Guardian*
Eileen Myles' essential poetry is the hip kid leaning against their
locker secretly burning with intensity, the smartest boy in the
class who doesn't care he has a scar down his face, the thing you
just wish you'd said
*Lena Dunham*
Amazing
*Kim Gordon*
Eileen Myles's poetry is kinetic, ecstatic, muscular, hilarious,
sorrowful, valiant, original, necessary, and timeless. For those of
you who are encountering it for the first time, I envy your
ride.
*Maggie Nelson*
[A] new generation of public feminists, including Beth Ditto, Lena
Dunham and Tavi Gevinson, cite her as an inspiration, finding in
her writing a ribald and ponderous succession to the New York
School.
*New York Times*
She and her work are unsettled in the best sense: restless,
disturbing, changeable... She is exemplary for more and more young
writers precisely because she has gone her own way.
*Ben Lerner*
One of the richest and most conflicted human hearts you're likely
to find
*New York Review of Books*
It's not often that a writer embodies the kind of trailblazing,
unapologetic realness and talent that American poet Eileen Myles
does.
*Wonderland*
Reading Myles is the best kind of community, one speaking truth and
beauty, kind of referencing Keats but dismissing his gravitas in
sleights of queer slipperiness ... ... impossibly recognisable,
distinctive.
*Poetry Review*
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