Chelsea girls 9780062394668, 9780062394675 vitalsource. Get it by monday, sep 16 only 6 left in stock more on. And so then like the next book, cool for you, took five years, you know, its, once. The concept behind this design follows that simple idea and turns a normal bookcase into a cool piece of seating. Inferno a poets novel by eileen myles and publisher or books. Cool for you was written on the heels of the publication of myless linked story collection chelsea girls, where she first translated the rangy, direct. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Elizabeth horkley delves into the filmmaking and curatorial work of eileen myles. On eileen myless the trip and ivan dixons the spook who. See all books authored by eileen myles, including chelsea girls, and cool for you, and more on. A sagittarius, their twenty books include evolution poems, afterglow a dog memoir, a 2017 reissue of cool for you, i must be living twicenew and selected poems, and chelsea girls. Next year my goal is to read more books already on my bookshelf, particularly the long ones. The ripple of experience is the only beauty here my coloring book why not is so like a movie. Even myles brief use of u for you, creates friction against the huge cool.
Her essays were collected in the importance of being iceland 2009. Nov 01, 2000 eileen myles is a poet, novelist, performer and art journalist. And everybodys always letting you know where you sit on the shelf. Do you kill a poem or piece of prose because you feel its too familiar. Eileen myles is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and. You better believe i bragged to the one person in the library who. Buy a cheap copy of cool for you book by eileen myles. In this video, eileen myles, an incomparable poet in contemporary america, speaks openly about.
A recipient of a guggenheim fellowship in nonfiction, a creative capitalandy warhol foundation arts writers grant, four lambda literary awards, the shelley award from the poetry society of america, and the clark prize for excellence. I just want to take a moment to say how incredible it is that i was given the chance to read myles book. Poet, novelist, lesbian culture hero and onetime presidentialcandidate, myles has influenced a whole generation of young queer girl writers and activists. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. I must be living twice 9780062389091, 9780062389107. Plot doesnt interest me that much, but time travel does, eileen myles laconically told nate lippens in the stranger after the first publication of her first novel, cool for you, in 2000. Sep 29, 2016 from brilliant bookshelves built into stairs to floortoceiling libraries, these bookshelf ideas for living rooms, the study and beyond are just as inspiring as the tomes that fill them. Leaders in different fields share the 10 books theyd take with them if they were marooned on a desert island. I must be living twice new and selected poems by eileen myles and publisher ecco.
This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of cool for you and chelsea girls captures the high points of myles work in new york city during the 1980s. Framed around the authors search for the medical records of her grandmother, who spent. Instead, she becomes a poet and journeys through a series of lowend schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade. Eileen myles s new novel, cool for you, is much more a writingout of female madness than a book about it. A sagittarius, their twenty books include evolution poems, afterglow a dog memoir, a 2017 reissue of cool for you, i must be living twice new and selected poems, and chelsea girls.
Eileen myles is currently considered a single author. They attended catholic schools in arlington, massachusetts, and graduated from umass boston in 1971. Cool for you is a fabulous portrayl of the memories of eileen myles. A ministering spirit touches down in both cool for you, the first novel by the poet eileen myles, and the heart is deceitful above all things, the first story collection from the young. Cool for you was written on the heels of the publication of myless linked story collection chelsea girls, where she first translated the rangy, direct, highly public and intimate mode of address of her poems into prose. Leaders in different fields share the 10 books theyd take. If you know of any cool bookshelves or book cases that belong on this list, please add them. Its everything portrait of the artist as a young man is touted as being, but myles outmuscles, outtestosterones, and plain outdoes sterile joyce. This breakthrough volume, published in1991 by the author of cool for you and chelsea girls captures the high points of myles work in newyork city during the 1980s. Eileen myles born 1949 is an american poet who has also writtten fiction and nonfiction, and for the theater. You ve said that if you were born 30 years later, you might have wound up. I like the idea of writing a poem i could have written 30 years ago. Marks poetry project, where they studied with ted berrigan, alice.
Earlier today i taught a class at calarts about the great artist and writer david wojnarowicz, who died of aids in 1992. Eileen myles came to new york from boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently a novelist, public talker and art journalist. Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid comingofage novel inrealtime from one of americas most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic. Eileen myles has published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and fiction including not me 1991, chelsea girls 1994, cool for you 2000, and ski. I found this style of memoir to be fresh and effective, and myles voice to be honest, orginal, hilarious, and beautiful. Eileen myles is the only poet i know to have both lived in poverty and run for president of the united states. Myles tells us the story of her life in the form of a series of snapshots, jumping forward and backward in time, just as our minds retrieve and process memory.
During myles recent times interview, cox tried to catch the poet in a binary bind. Eileen myles in 1992, myles campaigned as americas first openly female writein presidential candidate. In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, eileen myles transforms life into a work of art. The first published novel of legendary poet and performer eileen myles follows a queer female growing up in workingclass boston, straining against the institutions that hold her. Pride month continues with this list of 5 mustread gay novels handpicked by the off the shelf staff. A cult figure to a generation of postpunk females forming their own literary avantgarde. Eileen myles was born in cambridge, massachusetts, and was educated at the university of massachusettsboston. Their twenty books include afterglow a dog memoir, a 2017 reissue of cool for you and i must be living.
Cool for you a novel by eileen myles soft skull press, 270 pp. The cave bookshelf allows you to literally do just that. Cool for you 9781593766870, 1593766874 vitalsource. Cool for you s toughgirl narrator wants to be an astronaut. Sep 24, 2015 do you reject work because you feel like youve done it before. Their twenty books include afterglow a dog memoir, a 2017 reissue of cool for you and i must be living twicenew and selected poems, and chelsea girls. Marks poetry project, where they studied with ted berrigan, alice notley, paul violi, and bill zavatsky. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break.
She graduated from the university of massachusetts boston in 1971. My writing fears manifest more on the order of my inability to stop being eileen myles. Eileen myles is a poet, novelist, public talker and art journalist. Clothed in nature with an open ear in rattapallax recording courtesy of william hidalgo ica and caconrad reading at the kelly writers house as part of the feminisms series, october, 2010. In the introduction to cool for you, chris kraus writes that eileen myles has transcribed the act of recall. The next in the series is the poet eileen myles, who shares her list exclusively with t. Eileen myles s cool for you rocks so hard it hurts. Cool for you has been vaguely on my reading list since browsing at city lights.
Eileen myless new and selected poems are titled i must be living twice, a phrase that any poet past the midpoint and looking back might utter, surprised to find a fund of work on the page as robust and spontaneous as any real life she lived. Cool for you by eileen myles book cover, description, publication history. Instead, she becomes a poet and journeys through a series of lowend schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade beds. Eileen is the recipient of a guggenheim fellowship, an andy warholcreative capital arts writers. Try taking a picture of your bookshelf and its wonderful contents. Their twentyone books include evolution poems, afterglow a dog memoir, a 2017 reissue of cool for you and i must be living twicenew and selected poems, and chelsea girls. Eileen myles, the poet and loudmouthed lesbian, which means mainstream invisible, as she described herself to the new york times, is hardly invisible anymore when the character of cherry jones is based on you in a golden globewinning series transparent, invisibility tends to fall away. Myles moved to new york city in 1974 with the intention of becoming a poet. They moved to new york city in 1974 to be a poet, and subsequently a novelist and art journalist.
Cool for you is too insightful to be lumped with memoirs. Mar 07, 2016 we may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Poet, novelist, lesbian culture hero and onetime presidential candidate, myles has influenced a. An appreciation of eileen myles, unapologetic gender warrior. If it doesnt kill you, it will teach you a lot, and i learned a lot from drugs and alcohol. Its so cool that youre talking about this, because when i was. Cool for you by eileen myles and publisher soft skull press.
Chris kraus on why you should read eileen myless first novel. Apr 25, 2014 when i moved into my apartment last year, my roommate already had a full bookshelf in our living room. Who doesnt love to curl up and surround themselves with books and escape for an afternoon. Bookmate added a book to the bookshelf leading ladies 10 months ago when a teacher hears a dying prison guard utter a cryptic message in the aftermath of a riot, a bored teacher finds herself on a wild goose chase that may cost her dearly. Search results for eileen myles page 1 strand books.
Save up to 80% by choosing the etextbook option for isbn. David lifts his smoke to his lips forever dangling chain in the middle of everything bout the top shelf or so. Crossing the invisible line by dan chiasson the new york. Myless many honors include a guggenheim fellowship, four lambda literary awards, the clark prize for excellence in arts writing, as well as grants from creative capital nonfiction and the foundation for contemporary arts poetry, and the andy. Born in cambridge, massachusetts, eileen myles grew up in arlington, massachusetts, where she attended catholic schools.
Like most memoirs, its moving, and often sad, but where other books devolve into wee wistful prettiness, cool for you stays rigorous like a breaststroke, performed again, and again, and again. The novel that inspired nabokovs lolita off the shelf. Cool for yous toughgirl narrator wants to be an astronaut. Oct 12, 2010 the snake according to eileen myles in january 1998, during a reading at the ear inn in new york, eileen myles read a poem called snakes. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading chelsea girls. Jun 26, 2014 pride month continues with this list of 5 mustread gay novels handpicked by the off the shelf staff. Afterglow a dog memoir kindle edition by eileen myles. Plot doesnt interest me that much, but time travel does, eileen myles laconically told nate lippens in the stranger after the first publication of her first novel, cool for you, in 2000 you could say the book is about myles s childhood, and that would be true, but it would also be partially wrong. Chris kraus on why you should read eileen myless first.
You could say the book is about myless childhood, and that would be true, but it would also partially wrong. Chelsea girls a novel by eileen myles and publisher ecco. Eileen myles has lived in her east village apartment, where this interview took place, since 1977, and yet, entering her studio, i got the feeling shed just moved in or was ready to move outboth make sense, because she is itinerant since our conversations last summer, shes been in dublin and lisbon and oakland and paris and provincetown, massachusetts, and several other places and. Cool for you by eileen myles 2008, paperback for sale. Sep 07, 2012 what does your bookshelf say about you. If you havent heard of her before, do yourself a favour and research her or give this book a read. Do you know what the message of western civilization is. A less complicated way to say that is that eileen has written a book. Backed up against the wall adjacent to a luminous floortoceiling window, it stands six feet tall and packed to the gills with books penned almost exclusively by women i love and admire. Eileen myles was born in cambridge, massachusetts, on december 9, 1949, to a family with a workingclass background. Schooled by mean and memorable catholic nuns, this tomboy heroine stumbles and dreams her way through the painful corridors of family, early sexual encounters, and an eyeopening series of jobs caring for the sick and insane. An interview with eileen myles ray filar interviews the poet eileen myles as part of an occasional series about gender on the verso blog. Nov 03, 2010 myles first fiction was the story collection chelsea girls 1994, which was followed by cool for you, a nonfiction novel, in 2000. If youre not sweating in this town, theres something wrong.
And i just hand you this damp coloring book i say there. Eileen myles came to new york from boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently a novelist, public talker, and art journalist. I think there was a little religious poem i wrote when i was a child to. Eileen myles is a poet, novelist, performer and art journalist. Oct 23, 2015 the types of books you read say a lot about who you are as a person, but i bet you didnt expect that your bookshelf or, ok, lets be more realistic. They have published twenty volumes of poetry and fiction including not me 1991, chelsea girls 1994, cool for you 2000, and skies 2001. The new york times may 30, 2001 sf chronicle 2000 the stranger, seattle 2000 the nation july 21, 2001 book sense marchapril, 2001 index magazine aprilmay, 2001 sf bay guardian july 21. Eileen myles in conversation with ben lerner literary hub. Maggie nelson on eileen myles poetry society of america. Eileen myles books list of books by author eileen myles. Eileen myles is the author of more than twenty books, including afterglow a dog memoir, inferno a poets novel, chelsea girls, and cool for you. The following is a talk that maggie nelson delivered on eileen myles as part of the poetry society of americas the voice of women in american poetry, on september 18 2014, at the pasadena public library. Last week, we focused on men, but this week we hear from the ladiesfrom a 1928 classic the well of loneliness to contemporary poet eileen myles cool for you, these are the essential beach reads to get through before the month is.
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