Not Me (Native Agents)
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (685 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0936756675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Betsy D. said Not for Me. Total naval gazing, this isn't poetry of the insightful or ironic type. This is a song of myself without the frills and furbelows of Whitman.. NOT ME A Customer here eileen myles does it again. her poetry is life. the words she uses and the form of expressions capture the essence of life. in its many forms.. Five Stars Killazilla Quick delivery and intact
Thing is, she has one of the savviest voices and most restless intellects in contemporary lit—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it." Dennis Cooper, Artforum"Myles is a female adventurer a peripatetic poet on a mission to amplify herself and to live large as the heroic anti-hero of her poems." Village Voice. "Not Me is the biography of an American outlaw a poet who believes in action as well as acts of imagination." The Kenyon Review"Myles basically talks shit in skinny columns and calls them poems
. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation. Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not Me (Semiote
Poet, novelist, lesbian culture hero and one-time presidential candidate, Myles has influenced a whole generation of young queer girl writers and activists. Listen, I have been educated.I have learned about WesternCivilization. Do you knowWhat the message of WesternCivilization is? I am alone.This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of Cool For You and Chelsea Girls captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. She is one of the most brilliant, incisive, immediate writers living today.