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From "one of the essential voices in American poetry" (New York
Times) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and
cheerfully foreboding poems oddly in tune with our strange and
evolving presentThe first new collection since Evolution from the
prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a "Working Life"
unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in
relationship, on city sidewalks or in the country, their lyrics
always engage with permanence and mortality, danger and safety,
fear and wonder.a "Working Life" is a book transfixed by the
everyday: the "sweet accumulation" of birds outside a window, a cup
of coffee and a slice of pizza, a lover's foot on the bed. These
poems arise in the close quarters of air travel, the flashing of a
landscape through a train window, or simply in a truck tooling
around town, or on foot with a dog in all the places that held us
during the pandemic lockdowns. Myles's lines unabashedly sing the
happy contradictions of love and sex, spill over with warnings
about the not-so future world threatened by climate change and
capitalism, and also find transcendent wonder in the landscapes and
animals around us, and in the solitary and collective act of caring
for one another and our world.With intelligence, heart, and
singular vision, a "Working Life" shows Eileen Myles working at a
thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers.
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Joan Mitchell (Hardcover)
Sarah Roberts, Katy Siegel; Contributions by Paul Auster, Gisele Barreau, Eric De Chassey, …
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A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent
artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond
Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that
shaped her Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was fearless in her
experimentation, creating works of unparalleled beauty, strength,
and emotional intensity. This gorgeous book unfolds the story of an
artistic master of the highest order, revealing the ways she
expanded abstract painting and illuminating the transatlantic
contexts that shaped her. Lavish illustrations cover the full arc
of her artistic practice, from her exceptional New York paintings
of the early 1950s to the majestic multipanel compositions she made
in France later in her career. Signature works are represented here
along with rarely seen paintings, works on paper, artist's
sketchbooks, and photographs of Mitchell's life, social circle, and
surroundings. Featuring scholarly texts, in-depth essays, and
artistic and literary responses, this book is organized in ten
chronological chapters. Each chapter centers on a closely related
suite of paintings, illuminating a shifting inner landscape colored
by experience, sensation, memory, and a deep sense of place.
Presenting groundbreaking research and a variety of perspectives on
her art, life, and connections to poetry and music, this
unprecedented volume is an essential reference for Mitchell's
admirers and those just discovering her work. Published in
association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Exhibition
Schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (September 4,
2021-January 17, 2022) Baltimore Museum of Art (March 6-August 14,
2022) Fondation Louis Vuitton (October 5, 2022-February 27, 2023)
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Zoe Leonard: Available Light (Hardcover)
Zoe Leonard; Edited by Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder; Text written by Diedrich Diederichsen, Suzanne Hudson, …
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Pathetic Literature
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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 pathos and feeling, giving a
well-timed rehab to the word "pathetic" "Literature is pathetic."
So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction
to Pathetic Literature, a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging
from poems to theater scripts to prose to anything in between, all
exploring the so-called "pathetic" or awkwardly-felt moments and
revelations around which lives are both built and undone.Myles
first reclaimed the word for a seminar they taught at the
University of California San Diego in the early 2000s, rescuing it
from the derision into which it had slipped and restoring its
original meaning of inspiring emotion or feeling, from the Ancient
Greek rhetorical method pathos. Their identification of "pathetic"
as ripe for reinvention forms the need for this anthology, which
includes a hearty 106 contributors, encompassing canonical global
stars like Robert Walser, Jorge Luis Borges, Rumi, and Gwendolyn
Brooks, literary libertines like Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany,
and Bob Flanagan, as well as extraordinary writers on the rise,
including Nicole Wallace, Precious Okoyomon, and Will Farris.
Wrenching and discomfiting prose by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio,
Jack Halberstam, and Porochista Khakpour rubs shoulders with poems
by Natalie Diaz, Victoria Chang, Lucille Clifton, and Ariana
Reines, and butts up against fiction from Chester Himes, Djuna
Barnes, Chris Kraus, and Qiu Miaojin, among so many others,
including Myles's own opening salvo of their 1992 presidential
campaign. The result is a completely anomalous and uplifting
anthology that encourages a fresh political discourse on
literature, as well as supplying an essential compendium of pained,
awkward, queer, trans, gleeful, and ever-jarring ways to think
differently and live pathetically on a polarized and fearful
planet.
The first new poetry collection since Evolution from the peerless
writer, activist and poet Eileen Myles, a "Working Life" captures
the many dualities of human life: loneliness and companionship,
city and country, youth and aging, travel and stasis, fear and
wonder. a "Working Life" is a book rooted in the beauty of the
everyday: the 'sweet accumulation' of birds outside a window, a cup
of coffee and a slice of pizza, a lover's foot on the bed. These
poems travel widely in planes, trains and cars around the world and
by foot across the terrain of the small rooms that held us during
the pandemic lockdowns. In this collection Myles shows both the
beauty and ridiculousness of love and sex, articulates the immense
anxieties about the future world threatened by climate change and
capitalism, and also finds transcendent wonder in the landscapes
and animals around us, and in the radical human act of caring for
one another and our world. With humour, beauty and singular vision,
a "Working Life" shows Eileen Myles working at the height of their
poetic and philosophical powers.
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-hearted, her poems are a raw, complex and compelling diary of postmodern life and invite readers into astonishing new considerations of familiar settings, from the beginnings and ends of love and the imperatives of sexual desire, to the daily wonder of a poet's life in New York City and beyond - into lush-and sometimes horrible-dream worlds, imbuing the landscapes of her writing with the vividness and energy of fantasy.
I Must Be Living Twice reflects Myles' sardonic, unapologetic, and freewheeling literary voice. Steeped in the culture of New York City, I Must Be Living Twice is a prism refracting a radical world and a compelling life.
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For Now (Paperback)
Eileen Myles
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In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the
social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work
 “A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait.”—Kirkus
Reviews  “[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell,
and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the
way.”—National Public Radio  "This is signature Myles:
the unconventional syntax, the jazzy rhythms, the total commitment
to writing in the heat of the moment, not edited or modulated by
concessions to linear rationality."—Phil Gambone, Gay &
Lesbian Review  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; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with
neighbors, friends, and lovers; and the textures and identities of
cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as
presence in time.  For Myles, time’s “optic quality”
is what enables writing in the first place—as attention, as
devotion, as excess. It is this chronologized vision that enables
the writer to love the world as it presently is, lending love a
linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that
threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent, generous, and always
insightful, For Now is a candid record of the creative process from
one of our most beloved artists.
Traces the feminist icon Carolee Schneemann's prolific six-decade
output, spanning her remarkably diverse, transgressive, and
interdisciplinary expression Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) was one
of the most experimental artists of the twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries. This book traces six decades of the
feminist icon's diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary
expression through Schneemann's experimental early paintings,
sculptural assemblages and kinetic works; rarely seen photographs
of her radical performances; her pioneering films; and
groundbreaking multi-media installations. Contributors shed new
light on Schneemann's work, which addressed urgent topics from
sexual expression and the objectification of women to human
suffering and the violence of war. An artist who was concerned with
the precarious lived experience of both humans and animals, this
book positions Schneemann as one of the most relevant, provocative
and inspiring artists in recent years. Published in association
with Barbican Art Gallery Exhibition Schedule: Barbican Art
Gallery, London (September 8, 2022-January 8, 2023)
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen
Myles transforms their 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 discovery,
Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of how one
young writer managed to shrug off the imposition of a rigid
cultural identity. Told in Myles's audacious and singular voice
made vivid and immediate by their lyrical language, Chelsea Girls
weaves together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with
an alcoholic father, their volatile adolescence, their unabashed
"lesbianity," and their riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in
1970s and 80s New York.
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 writing,
guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless.
Contributors: Tanya Barfield, Dodie Bellamy, Adele Bertei, Lisa
Beskin, Rebecca Brown, Kelly Cogswell, Dominique Dibbell, Shannon
Ebner, Laura Flanders, Eliza Galaher, Marilyn Hacker, Holly Hughes,
Lisa Kron, Joan Larkin, Myra Mniewski, Honor Moore, Cynthia Nelson,
Madeline Olnek, Nancy Redwine, Julie Regan, Annie Reid, Danine
Ricereto, Camille Roy, Sapphire Joan Schenkar, Kathy Lou Schultz,
Lucy Sexton, Linda Smukler, Pamela Sneed, Christina Sunley,
Carmelita Tropicana, Claudia von Vacano, Laurie Weeks, Debra
Weinstein, Joe Westmoreland, Millie Wilson, Linda Yablonsky.
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Not Me (Paperback)
Eileen Myles
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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 culture
hero and one-time presidential candidate, Myles has influenced a
whole generation of young queer girl writers and activists. She is
one of the most brilliant, incisive, immediate writers living
today.
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Evolution (Paperback)
Eileen Myles
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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 channeling of
Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose,
and risk, like in these opening lines of the title poem: Something
unearthly about today so I buy a Diet Coke & a newspaper a
version of "me" something about me on the earth & its sneakers
& feeling like the earth's furniture but that can't be true or
like the coke & the Times it's true for a little while.
A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by
Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for
the first time Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe
(1946-1989) are well known for significant work in portraiture and
self-portraiture that challenged gender roles and notions of
femininity, masculinity, and androgyny. This exciting and original
book is the first to consider the two artists together, examining
the powerful portraits they created during the vibrant and
tumultuous era bookended by the Stonewall riots and the AIDS
crisis. Several important bodies of work are featured, including
Warhol's Ladies and Gentlemen series of drag queen portraits and
his collaboration with Christopher Makos on Altered Image, in which
Warhol was photographed in makeup and wigs, and Mapplethorpe's
photographs of Patti Smith and of female body builder Lisa Lyon.
These are explored alongside numerous other paintings, photographs,
and films that demonstrate the artists' engagement with gender,
identity, beauty, performance, and sexuality, including their own
self-portraits and portraits of one another. Essays trace the
convergences and divergences of Warhol and Mapplethorpe's work, and
examine the historical context of the artists' projects as well as
their lasting impact on contemporary art and queer culture.
Firsthand accounts by the artists' collaborators and subjects
reveal details into the making and exhibition of some of the works
presented here. With an illustrated timeline highlighting key
moments in the artists' careers, and more than 90 color plates of
their arresting pictures, this book provides a fascinating study of
two of the most compelling figures in 20th-century art. Published
in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Exhibition
Schedule: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (10/17/15-1/24/16)
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I Love Dick (Paperback)
Chris Kraus; Foreword by Eileen Myles
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In "I Love Dick," published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of "Aliens
& Anorexia," "Torpor," and "Video Green," boldly tore away the
veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from
self-expression. It's no wonder that "I Love Dick" instantly
elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate
admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed
independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a
well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of
her husband. But when the theorist refuses to answer her letters,
the husband and wife continue the correspondence for each other
instead, imagining the fling the wife wishes to have with Dick.
What follows is a breathless pursuit that takes the woman across
America and away from her husband--and far beyond her original
infatuation into a discovery of the transformative power of first
person narrative. "I Love Dick" is a manifesto for a new kind of
feminist who isn't afraid to burn through her own narcissism in
order to assume responsibility for herself and for all the
injustice in world--and it's a book you won't put down until the
author's final, heroic acts of self-revelation and transformation.
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My Mother Laughs (Paperback)
Chantal Akerman; Introduction by Eileen Myles; Translated by Danielle Shreir; Afterword by Frances Morgan
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A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bjoerk
to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in
Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod 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 a poet's eye for detail and with the
consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a
social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art
writing, the essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush
document of her-and our-lives in these contemporary crowds. Framed
by Myles's account of her travels in Iceland, these essays posit
inbetweenness as the most vital position from which to perceive
culture as a whole, and a fluidity in national identity as the best
model for writing and thinking about art and culture. The essays
include fresh takes on Thoreau's Cape Cod walk, working class
speech, James Schulyer and Bjoerk, queer Russia and Robert
Smithson; how-tos on writing an avant-garde poem and driving a
battered Japanese car that resembles a menopausal body; and
opinions on such widely ranging subjects as filmmaker Sadie
Benning, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Ted Berrigan's Sonnets, and
flossing.
Skinny's Book of the Year, 2018 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 dynamics between pet and pet-owner. At the same
time, it reimagines Myles's experiences with alcoholism and
recovery, intimacy and mourning, celebrity and politics,
spirituality and family history, while joyously transcending the
parameters of memoir. Moving from an imaginary talk show where
Rosie is interviewed by Myles's childhood puppet, to a critical
reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull; from
shimmering poetic transcriptions of video footage taken during
their walks, to Rosie's final enlightened narration from the
afterlife, this totally singular text combines elements of science
fiction, screenplay, monologue, and lucid memory to get to the
heart of how and why we dedicate our existence to our dogs.
From its beginning—“My English professor’s ass was so
beautiful.”—to its end—“You 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 indie
heyday, is engrossing, poignant, and funny. This is a voice from
the underground that redefines the meaning of the word.
Among The Village Voices 25 Favorite Books of 2006 Winner of the
2007 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Trade Illustrated
Book Design category. Sometime after Andy Warhol's heyday but
before Soho became a tourist trap, a group of poets, punk rockers,
guerilla journalists, graffiti artists, writers, and activists
transformed lower Manhattan into an artistic scene so diverse it
became known simply as "Downtown." Willfully unpolished and
subversively intelligent, figures such as Spalding Gray, Kathy
Acker, Richard Hell, David Wojnarowicz, Lynne Tillman, Miguel
Pinero, and Eric Bogosian broke free from mainstream publishing to
produce a flood of fiction, poetry, experimental theater, art, and
music that breathed the life of the street. The first book to
capture the spontaneity of the Downtown literary scene, Up Is Up,
But So Is Down collects more than 125 images and over 80 texts that
encompass the most vital work produced between 1974 and 1992.
Reflecting the unconventional genres that marked this period, the
book includes flyers, zines, newsprint weeklies, book covers, and
photographs of people and the city, many of them here made
available to readers outside the scene for the first time. The
book's striking and quirky design-complete with 2-color
interior-brings each of these unique documents and images to life.
Brandon Stosuy arranges this hugely varied material chronologically
to illustrate the dynamic views at play. He takes us from poetry
readings in Alphabet City to happenings at Darinka, a Lower East
Side apartment and performance space, to the St. Mark's Bookshop,
unofficial crossroads of the counterculture, where home-printed
copies of the latest zines were sold in Ziploc bags. Often
attacking the bourgeois irony epitomized by the New Yorker's short
fiction, Downtown writers played ebulliently with form and content,
sex and language, producing work that depicted the underbelly of
real life. With an afterword by Downtown icons Dennis Cooper and
Eileen Myles, Up Is Up, But So Is Down gathers almost twenty years
of New York City's smartest and most explosive-as well as hard to
find-writing, providing an indispensable archive of one of the most
exciting artistic scenes in U.S. history.
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2019 New Statesman's best
books of the year, 2018 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-spanning selected poems, Evolution is Myles' first all-new
poetry collection since 2011's Snowflake/different streets. These
new poems upend genre in a vernacular that enacts, like nothing
else, the way we speak (inside and out today). From walking around
Marfa and New York City with an orange pit bull to Eileen's
transcendent acceptance speech as President, Evolution lifts a can
of Diet Coke as an End-of-the-World toast to embodiment,
irreverence and risk.
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