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Inferno (A Poet's Novel)

Eileen Myles

Why we're reading this: Wonderful biography by the poet Eileen Myles about growing up gay in Boston and then pursuing poetry in N…more
[close] Wonderful biography by the poet Eileen Myles about growing up gay in Boston and then pursuing poetry in NYC.

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Jan 12, 2018 Mel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I have a new poet crush and it's Eileen Myles. Of course, I will always have the biggest poet crush on Patti Smith, but yeah, I have a new one or maybe another one and it is on Eileen Myles. This is a memoir about their life in New York in what I like to think was its hey day. When it was filled with people who were writers, poets and artists and queers. They weren't rich and they didn't have a lot of money. They didn't need to at that time. This is the New York I missed cause I am too young and ...more

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