Eileen Myles





Eileen Myles

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January 01, 1949 in Cambridge, MA, The United States

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Eileen Myles (born 1949, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is probably America's best-known unofficial poet. Her latest book is Sorry, Tree in which she describes “some nature” as well as the transmigration of souls from the east coast to the west. Bust Magazine calls Myles "the rock star of modern poetry" and Holland Cotter in The New York Times describes her as "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde."


Average rating: 4.13 · 2,207 ratings · 290 reviews · 40 distinct works
Cool for You
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Inferno
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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Sorry, Tree
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Chelsea Girls
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 167 ratings4 editions
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The Importance of Being Ice...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2009
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Not Me
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1991
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The New Fuck You: Adventure...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1995
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Skies
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 59 ratings3 editions
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Maxfield Parrish: Early and...
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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School of Fish
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 51 ratings3 editions
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“Listen, I have been educated.
I have learned about Western
Civilization. Do you know
What the message of Western
Civilization is? I am alone.”
Eileen Myles

“The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.”
Eileen Myles, Inferno

“Time passes. That's for sure.”
Eileen Myles

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