Eileen Myles

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born

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

website

http://www.eileenmyles.com/

genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

influences

New York School

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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."

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Books by Eileen Myles

Average rating: 4.13 · 2,207 ratings · 290 reviews · 40 distinct works

	Cool for You 3.86 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Inferno 4.18 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sorry, Tree 4.02 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Chelsea Girls 4.15 avg rating — 167 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art 4.15 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Not Me 4.36 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading 3.84 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Skies 4.14 avg rating — 59 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Maxfield Parrish: Early and New Poems 4.50 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	School of Fish 4.31 avg rating — 51 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Eileen Myles

“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

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“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

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

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