Cool for you eileen myles books

Myles has also written a short story collection, chelsea girls 1994. They moved to new york city in 1974 to be a poet, and subsequently a novelist, art journalist, and writer of libretti. A poets novel or books, 2010, winner of the 2011 lambda literary award, and cool for you 2000. In eileen myless sorry, tree, every love poem is political and every political poem is, ultimately, about love. Eileen myles is the author of more than twenty books, including chelsea girls, cool for you, and i must be living twice. The style can be confusing as it merges dialogues with narrative, leaves out punctuations and in fact, seems to leave out whole pieces of plot line. 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. Licensed under creative commons, courtesy wikimedia commons in 1992 myles conducted a femaleled writein campaign for president of the united states. An appreciation of eileen myles, unapologetic gender warrior. Eileen is the recipient of a guggenheim fellowship, an andy warholcreative capital arts writers grant.

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. Boston in 1971 and moved to new york city in 1974 to be a poet. Eileen myles came to new york from boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently a novelist, public talker and art journalist. In fact, i think i must feel kind of like dante felt after seeing the face of god i can tell you that eileen myles made me understand something i didnt before. Inferno a poets novel by poet eileen myles or books. Books by author eileen myles at boomerang books, australias online independent bookstore page 1. While her most beloved books include cool for you, not me. My descriptive capacity just fails, gives way completely. Cool for you by eileen myles book cover, description, publication history.

This is a book hellbent on telling the truth about poor women, and how they do and do not get out of the hands of their families and the state. 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. 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. For some of us, the love of science fiction means we cannot bear to conduct a forensics on the genre. Marks poetry project, where they studied with ted berrigan, alice notley, paul violi, and bill zavatsky. Eileen myles, punk poet, on trump, capitalism, art, poetry. Eileen myles came to new york from boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently a novelist, public talker, and art journalist. Eileen myles in 1992, myles campaigned as americas first openly female writein presidential candidate. Myless many honors include four lambda literary awards, the clark prize for excellence in arts writing, the shelley memorial award from the poetry society of america. In fact, i think i must feel kind of like dante felt after seeing the face of god. One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literaturehonest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name itdennis cooper. Introduction 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.

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. Combine the current recognition with a 1992 presidential race myles ran as an. Discover book depositorys huge selection of eileen myles books online. Cool for you by eileen myles meet your next favorite book. 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. The first published novel of legendary poet and performer eileen myles follows a. Her short stories and novelsbooks such as chelsea girls and cool for youare literary underground faves. Instead, she becomes a poet and journeys through a series of lowend schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade.

Eileen myless new novel, cool for you, is much more a writingout of female madness than a book about it. Inferno a poets novel eileen myles i was completely stupefied by inferno in the best of ways. Cool for yous toughgirl narrator wants to be an astronaut. Eileen is the recipient of a guggenheim fellowship, an andy warholcreative. Freeranging and deadpan, tragic and joyful, this is a book about women. Established in 1962, the mit press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. Grainy and stripped, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of. Framed around the authors search for the medical records of. 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. You could say the book is about myless childhood, and that would be true, but it would also partially wrong. You could say the book is about myless childhood, and that would be true, but it. Eileen myles autobiographical novel, cool for you is unusual. 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 myless cool for you, as i did in 2018, for a more organic view.

See all books authored by eileen myles, including chelsea girls, and cool for you, and more on. Eileen myles books list of books by author eileen myles. Eileen myles has published twenty books of poetry, art journalism, and fiction and libretti. Buy a cheap copy of cool for you book by eileen myles. There are definitely two distinct sections in this book. Chris kraus on why you should read eileen myless first novel. In 1997 and again in 2007 eileen toured with sister spit, a postpunk female. 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 be partially wrong. Chris kraus on why you should read eileen myless first. But i can tell you that eileen myles made me understand something i didnt before. Poet, novelist, performer and art journalist eileen myles is the author of nineteen books including i must be living twice. I started at the end of her 21book canonor what was the end, at the time. Evidence suggests that myles lost interest in that sort of funny directness as the years went by.

A sagittarius, their twenty books include evolution poems, afterglow. Myles particular success two books out in a single calendar year, one a reissue of first novel, cool for you, this past spring from soft skull press, and another, afterglow, a. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Afterglow a dog memoir by eileen myles, eileen myles and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Chris kraus, author of i love dick, from the new introduction to cool for you. Eileen myles was born in cambridge, massachusetts, and was educated at the university of massachusettsboston. Instead, she becomes a poet and journeys through a series of lowend schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade beds. Eileen myles is a poet, novelist, performer and art journalist. Shes a guggenheim fellow, has received the shelley prize from the poetry society of america and a lambda award for lesbian fiction, and was named to the whitingslate second novel list. The uninitiated and short on time need not read much past the interviews exquisite, succinct headline, eileen myles wants men. And really, what more can you ask of a novel, or a poets novel, or a poem, or a memoir, or whatever the hell this shimmering document is. From the introduction to cool for you by eileen myles.

I must be living twice, by eileen myles the new york times. By eileen myles april 15, 2016 for his bookshop and website one grand books, the editor aaron hicklin asked people to name the 10 books theyd take with them if they were marooned on a desert. 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. 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. Seventeen years after its first publication, cool for you feels just as radical, startling, and daringly alive as when it first came out. Myles quickly became part of the reading, publishing and performance scene in the east village, editing dodgems in the late 70s and becoming part of the community.