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Collins, skies 2001, on my way 2001, cool for you novel, 2000. Like most memoirs, its moving, and often sad, but where other books devolve into wee wistful prettiness, cool for you. Perhaps an actuarial account of literature is all our hellish world deserves, but we could also reador rereadthe section on the solar system in eileen myles s cool for you, as i did in 2018, for a more. Myles moved to new york city in 1974 with the intention of becoming a poet. Join facebook to connect with eileen myles and others you may know. Eileen myles on writing and social media the creative. Instead, she becomes a poet and journeys through a series of lowend schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade. Cool for you by eileen myles 2008, paperback for sale. The first published novel of legendary poet and performer eileen myles follows a. You could say the book is about myles s childhood, and that would be true, but it would also partially wrong. The poetry gathered in this careerspanning book, i must be living twice, toggles between those poles. Eileen myles is an american poet who has also worked in fiction, nonfiction, and theater. Freeranging and deadpan, tragic and joyful, this is a book about women.
Eileen myles, the popular author of chelsea girls and not me, the poet who ran an openly female campaign for president in 1992, now gives us a talking masterpiece of a novel that scratches out and rewrites the picture of what fifty years of female life looks like today. 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. 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. Books by author eileen myles at boomerang books, australias online independent bookstore page 1. 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. Oct 14, 2015 i ts hard to think about eileen myles without being overwhelmed by her reputation as a badass. In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, eileen myles transforms life into a work of art. Paperback eileen myless cool for you rocks so hard it hurts. Discover book depositorys huge selection of eileen myles books online. Writer eileen myles on assembling a collection of poems the. In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, eileen myles transforms their life into a work of art. 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 myless childhood, and that would be true, but it would also partially wrong. Chelsea girls by eileen myles book read online scribd. Eileen myles born december 9, 1949 is an american poet and writer who has produced more. See all books authored by eileen myles, including chelsea girls, and cool for you, and more on thriftbooks. Eileen myles has 73 books on goodreads with 95745 ratings. Sep 26, 2016 september 26, 2016 on the television show transparent, created by eileen myles friend jill soloway, cherry jones plays a charismatic poet based on myles, and lily tomlins character in the 2015 film grandma, was based in part on myles, too. A sagittarius, their twenty books include evolution poems, afterglow a dog memoir, a 2017 reissue of cool for you, i must be. 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. Poet, novelist, lesbian culture hero and onetime presidential candidate, myles has influenced a whole generation of young queer girl writers and activists.
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