I am not the old are good, deserved My work is that answer. Do you see yourself as a kind of prophet? Sometimes, when I’m writing a poem, it’s like I’m dying. I thoughtWell I'll be a poet.What could be morefoolish and obscure.I became a lesbian.Every woman in myfamily looks likea dyke but it's reallystepping off the flagwhen you become one.While holding this ignominiouspose I have seen andI have learned andI am beginning to thinkthere is no escapinghistory. [1] Myles is described as "one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature. I think we all have incredible capacities to be prophetic, to be deeply sensitive and aware. I think adjectives are a little troubling, but I’m not uncomfortable with dealing with politics in my work. Much of their work, including the legendary Chelsea Girls, reflects on Myles’s childhood and the poetry scene of New York in the seventies and eighties. It always offers the same thing—an opportune space to list things in an order that makes sense to you. we do about this dilemma? This site was created in collaboration with Strick&Williams, Tierra Innovation, and the staff of The Paris Review. How do you see poetry as potentially being a political intervention? Coming back to Evolution, I wanted to ask you about the poem “A Gift for You.” I love the images in this piece, humility as a “deflated / beach ball / on a tiny / chair” and “the calm / person writing / her calm poems” who “opens / her chest & / a monkey / god / is taking / a shit / swinging / on his / thing.” There’s so much here. — Eileen Myles. Eileen Myles (born 1949) is an American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. But as important as these themes are, the selected poems make obvious that it’s the broader, weirder thinking that emerges from these specifics. here …. we are all Kennedys. Their intergenerational exchange has been the subject of scholarship by Dianne Chisholm and Jose Munoz.[1]. "[2] In 2012 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow (a memoir), which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog's life.[3]. The excerpt reads: “I am a Kennedy. long. I was born in Boston in 1949. Though up against the cuts to the NEA art budget during the Reagan years, Myles's energies were focused on broadening the aesthetic and cultural range of the St. Mark's Poetry Project. Myles's later plays, Feeling Blue parts 1, 2, and 3; Modern Art; and Our Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, written for Alina Troyano were all produced at WOW Cafe and P.S. I wanted to be a bourgeois writer. “I’ve swept away what’s unique about me to make it a little more translucent or transparent, to let you in.”. On September 29, 2015, HarperCollins reissued Myles's out-of-print novel, Chelsea Girls.[9]. It was always stolen time and always a secret practice. “To be a poet, it’s a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth,” Myles says. Honestly, I was very excited by the work that I was reading. By their own account, Myles moved from Boston to New York in 1974 "to be a poet," where they became associated with a group of poets at St. Mark's Poetry Project. from The Changing Face of AIDS: V. Elegy for the AIDS Virus, Graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 1971, First went around reading poetry to people, then focused on publishing, Has written for the Poetry Foundation's blog. Poetry has always resembled that, so it’s easy for poetry to be a comfortable space right now. alone. It seems in your work that the two bleed into each other regularly. In real life, Myles grew up in an Irish Catholic blue-collar Boston family. In the nineties she had a monthly column in Paper Magazine. It all seems magical to me, kind of chemical and even alchemical. I am alone. Etiquetas: Eileen Myles, poesia americana. I am alone.Am I alone tonight?I don't think so. They moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet, and subsequently a novelist, art journalist, and writer of libretti. Well, I do. me to be a Kennedy. Which poets or writers do you find most interesting and important? … “I was addition and subtraction,” she writes in one scene set in a New York apartment, “sunlight, bumpy white walls, millions of windows, Cafe Bustelo, … (The list goes on.) you’re talking. dodgems featured poems by John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Charles Bernstein, a letter from Lily Tomlin, and an angry note from a neighbor. Maxfield Parrish/early and new poems (Black Sparrow 1995) is a collection of both new and selected poems that explore the surreality of sex. Her work is very important to me. In Snowflake the poems work through the insularity of a technologically charged landscape, with different streets marking a relational entry, and reentry, into the common world.[6]. The book is framed by a transcript of a panel at The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown (Massachusetts) with Helen Miranda Wilson, Frances Richard, John Kelly, Molly Benjamin, and Jack Pierson, who each spoke about their own relation with the sky.

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