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Books by Eileen Myles
  | | Why I Write Ser. For Now by Eileen Myles Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2020 by Yale University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24464-9, ISBN: 0-300-24464-9 "In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work Blending humor and meditation, this wide-ranging essay by the award-winning poet and writer Eileen Myles is a ..." |
 | | The Importance of Being Iceland Travel Essays in Art (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents) by Eileen Myles, Chris Kraus, Sylvère Lotringer, Sylvã¨Re Lotringer Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2009 by Semiotext(E) ISBN-13: 978-1-58435-066-8, ISBN: 1-58435-066-0 "Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire's gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city--wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit--seeing it with ..." |
 | | Inferno(Reprint) A Poet's Novel by Eileen Myles Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Or Books ISBN-13: 978-1-944869-10-6, ISBN: 1-944869-10-7 "From its beginningMy English professor’s ass was so beautiful.”to its endYou can actually learn to have grace. And that’s heaven.”poet, essayist and performer Eileen Myles’ chronicle transmits an energy and vividness that will not soon leave its readers. Her story of a young female writer, discovering both her sexuality and her own creative drive in the meditative and raucous environment that was New York City in its punk and indi ..." |
 | | I Must Be Living Twice(Reprint) New and Selected Poems by Eileen Myles Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2016 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-238909-1, ISBN: 0-06-238909-2 "A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls.Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her work opens readers to astonishing new considerations of familiar places, like the East Village in her iconic Chelsea Girls, and invites them into lush--and sometimes horrid--dream worlds ..." |
 | | Chelsea Girls(Reprint) A Novel by Eileen Myles Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-239466-8, ISBN: 0-06-239466-5 "Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles’ 1960s Cath ..." |
 | | Snowflake / different streets(1st Edition) by Eileen Myles Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2012 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-58-2, ISBN: 1-933517-58-1 ""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 SillimanTwo books meet as one in legenda ..." |
 | | Not Me(1st Edition) (Native Agents) by Eileen Myles, Chris Kraus Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 1991 by Semiotext(E) ISBN-13: 978-0-936756-67-7, ISBN: 0-936756-67-5 "This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s.Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone. 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. Poet, novelist, lesbian c ..." |
 | | Cool for You(3rd Edition) A Novel by Eileen Myles, Chris Kraus Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2017 by Soft Skull Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-917-0, ISBN: 1-61902-917-0 "“A cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant-garde.”―The New York Times Why can’t I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. The first published novel of legendary poet and performer Eileen Myles follows a queer female growing up in working-class Boston, straining against the institutions that hold her: family, Catholic scho ..." |
 | | Afterglow(Reprint) (a dog memoir) by Eileen Myles Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2855-3, ISBN: 0-8021-2855-6 "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 Rosie.In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer’s life and wo ..." |
 | | Evolution by Eileen Myles Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61185-497-8, ISBN: 1-61185-497-0 "BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering." |
 | | Sorry, Tree(1st Edition) by Eileen Myles Paperback, 83 Pages, Published 2007 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-20-9, ISBN: 1-933517-20-4 "One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literaturehonest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.”Dennis CooperEileen Myles has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB in 1974. BUST magazine calls her the rock star of modern poetry” and The New York Times says she’s a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde. ..." |
 | | Skies(1st Edition) by Eileen Myles Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2001 by Black Sparrow Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57423-174-8, ISBN: 1-57423-174-X "Jennifer Liese. Chris Busa. Kathe Izzo. Sal Randolph. Melanie Braverman. Morgan Norwood. Marylyn Donohue, Nick Flynn. Jack Pierson. Helen Miranda Wilson, Milly Benjamin. John Kelly. Frances Richard. Jordana Rosenberg. Boris Pasternak & Rosie. Cover painting by Douglas Padgett. Black Sparrow Press books are printed on acid-free paper. library of congress cataloging-in- publication data Myles. Eileen. Skies : new poems / by Eileen Myl ..." |
 | | Cool For You(1st Edition) by Eileen Myles Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2000 by Soft Skull Press ISBN-13: 978-1-887128-59-9, ISBN: 1-887128-59-X "Grainy and stripped, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a girl growing up in working-class Boston. Eileen Myles is a genius!” Dorothy Allison" |
 | | Evolution(Reprint) by Eileen Myles Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2019 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4771-4, ISBN: 0-8021-4771-2 "The first all-new collection of poems since 2011’s Snowflake/different streets―and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice―here, in Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts―like nobody else―the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution, with its channeli ..." |
 | | Afterglow(1st Edition) (a dog memoir) by Eileen Myles Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2709-9, ISBN: 0-8021-2709-6 "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 Rosie. In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer’s life and w ..." |
 | | I Must Be Living Twice(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014 by Eileen Myles Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-238908-4, ISBN: 0-06-238908-4 "A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls.Eileen Myles’ work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her work opens readers to astonishing new considerations of familiar places, like the East Village in her iconic Chelsea Girls, and invites them into lush—and sometimes horrid—dream worlds, ..." |
 | | Inferno(1st Edition) A Poet's Novel by Eileen Myles Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by Or Books ISBN-13: 978-1-935928-03-4, ISBN: 1-935928-03-1 "Praise for Eileen Myles' Inferno "What is a poem worth? Not much in America. What is a life worth? Inferno isn't another 'life of the poet,' it's a fugue state where life and poem are one: shameful and glorious. People sometimes say, 'I came from nothing,' but that's not quite right. Myles shows us a 'place' a poet might come from, did come from--working class, Catholic, female, queer. This narrative journey somehow takes place in a mo ..." |
 | | The New Fuck You (Native Agents) by Eileen Myles, Liz Kotz, Camille Roy, Lisa Beskin, Carmelita Tropicana, Debra Weinstein, Nancy Redwine, Laura Flanders, Rebecca Brown, Adele Bertei, Claudia Von Vacano, Lucy Sexton, Tanya Barfield, Holly Hughes, Madeline Olnek, Shannon Ebner, Lisa Kron, Eliza Galaher, Joan Schenkar, Myra Mniewski, Laurie Weeks, Joe Westmoreland, Dominique Dibbell, Annie Reid, Joan Larkin, Kelly Cogswell, Millie Wilson, Christina Sunley, Marilyn Hacker, Danine Ricereto, Linda Smukler, Kathy Lou Schultz, Cynthia Nelson, Dodie Bellamy, Julie Regan, Honor Moore, Pamela Sneed, Linda Yablonsky Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1995 by Semiotext(E) ISBN-13: 978-1-57027-057-4, ISBN: 1-57027-057-0 "A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughes, Sapphire, Laurie Weeks, and many more.Borrowing its name from the notorious '60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and frictional stance with style and aplomb. A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian wr ..." |
 | | Pathetic Literature by Eileen Myles 596 Pages, Published 2022 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-5717-1, ISBN: 0-8021-5717-3 "An utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet and writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming writers that examine ..." |
 | | Afterglow A Dog Memoir (Paperback) by Eileen Myles Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61185-514-2, ISBN: 1-61185-514-4 "In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writer's way of being. Over the course of sixteen years together, Myles was devoted to the pit bull and their linked quality of life. And starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, Afterglow launches a playful and incisive investigation into the mostly mutually beneficial, sometimes reprehensible power dynamic ..." |
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