February 2012
10 posts
1 tag
Eileen Myles interviews CA Conrad
mleschu:
Eileen Myles: Sex is problematic. I mean, isn’t it? In the world, and definitely the poetry world. Yet it’s everywhere in the world of your poems. Sex is the desire to survive—not just to multiply, but to be. Yet a queer person is always told to ACT LIKE US—for your own good—so you won’t bring all this grief upon yourself. Be like this, and not that. This kind persuasion goes...
“I just dived down. It couldn’t have been too fast. Time was being so slow and...”
– BOOK & BONE: For a moment I lived in her sun
(via carmenrios)
World's First Poetry Murder Mystery Webseries →
bobholman:
Catch the “World’s First Poetry Murder Mystery Webseries” w/ guest turns by Taylor Mead, John Giorno, Eileen Myles, Stacy Szymasek, Bill Kushner (as corpse), Sophie Holman (as Mystery Woman), Lamont Steptoe (Bad Guy), and starring Jon Sands and Angel Nafis. With Bob Holman as a batty Columbia professor (typecasting).
“Why is light
so damn emotional
if it’s just
a burning star
this toe
an inch”
– Eileen Myles, from I’m Moved (via drugz)
“I say always go to the party
which doesn’t mean I do
some friends left early...”
– Eileen Myles, from “Therapy,” Sorry, Tree. (via cyanotype-thrill)
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“See a poem is a tiny institution. I just write lots and lots of them, and it...”
– Eileen Myles, The Importance of Being Iceland (via joywesterman)
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“What are we based in? What are we accountable to? What do we love?”
– Eileen Myles on questions for a teacher, at the “Teaching Queer Writing: Workshops to Watch Out For” panel at AWP 11 (via oxxenfree)
BLACK BOX RECORDERS DON'T LIE: “Well I love... →
war-brain:
“Well I love windows simply. I love windows as a light source, and the effects of that light on the shapes in the room and the shape of the room itself. The effects of the light on the people in the room, and the displayed choices of some artist as to which room, which people to depict with light…
January 2012
11 posts
Sorry
twicedailypoetry:
I can’t remember the 2nd time I hurt you— it was dark & someplace in that darkness was the thing I did. You weren’t the target, I know that, though you might’ve been the bow & the tension I really think is love. Nothing ever sends me away. I’ve got your pain in my pocket & it glows in the dark and in the light it’s the softest kind of singing woman’s voice....
“Well, I think the first section is this collision of the private with the...”
– Eileen Myles, on Inferno. (via beautravail)
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“But this was a cover letter from Eileen Myles, hoping the professor’s summer was...”
– A Portrait of the Artist Engulfed in Flames
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eileen myles: 40th st
I’d like to say that when I change coffee the pot doesn’t know it for a few days it’s awaiting the tempo of French espresso & suddenly El Pico is back it’s inexplicable the glass pot is dulled speechless so wake me up with your confusion in a few days you’ll be shaped like this & a new strong meaning will come. Be patient pot. Advance the parade.
“[Myles’] most important insight might be that being poor can only seem noble or...”
– Sady Doyle, Standing in the Goods: Inferno and the Myth of the American Working-Class Artist, Emily Books
(via theheartisalandfill)
“The marketing people will say—so who is she. Who is the author of this book,...”
– Eileen Myles is probably not going to see the Secretariat movie. I wrote about her new book for the Poetry Foundation. (via emilygould)
“by the end it’s clear she has mastered her craft to an extent that as a reader...”
– OR Books: Matthew Gallaway on Inferno in his “A Year in Reading” feature on The Millions.
1 tag
“I am always hungry
& wanting to have
sex. This is a fact.
If you get...”
– Peanut Butter
December 2011
11 posts
Jim Fahey by Eileen Myles
mysterysmudgesextra:
I’m deep into The Importance of Being Iceland, a collection of travel essays in art, all by EM herself. I got it in September, but I only started reading it in early October. I have dog-eared a lot of pages, and tumbl’d a lot of quotes. This book is resonating with me, in significant ways, and often. Here are excerpts that really hit me, from an essay she wrote about going...
Calling all Eileen Myles fans...
orbooks:
Send blank email to badmirror@orbooks.com and see what happens! (Don’t worry: it’s free.)
“Childhood is an endless sleeplessness, and tomorrow is something you never own....”
– Inferno, Eileen Myles (via jehseh)
“Before I could write before I even knew how to spell I went out with my best...”
– Inferno, Eileen Myles (via jehseh)
“Nobody ever told me how to live, they told me what not to do.”
– Inferno, Eileen Myles (via jehseh)
“i finished “Cool for You” by Eileen Myles today and I thought about how much I...”
– Until Then: The Eileen Myles and Gertrude Stein Post
“I am so glad I am not an artist. A poet kind of is, but really it’s like you’re...”
– Eileen Myles, Inferno (via suddenlysamuel)
November 2011
12 posts
“Sex with men occasionally could be fine. It was their point of view that was...”
– Eileen Myles, Inferno (via lookerlooker)
Inferno: "poetry book of the year"! (though it's a... →
orbooks:
Stunning review of Eileen Myles’ Inferno by Bob Holman and Margery Snyder: “She’s unstoppable because she’s a poet, unbridled because she’s Eileen. An act of audacity and clarity, a poem straining to be a life, Myles’ Inferno is a book for the ages…”
"The moment we are living in is full of the groans...
madebymordecai:
Eileen Myles, The Importance of Being Iceland (134) via hardboundbookhound
NICE WISHES
yarrowyard:
Mostly I wanted
to wish you
a nice drama,
a piece of tempura,
nice ego trip,
good run in this
ghastly weather.
an excerpt from “Nice Wishes,” Not Me —Eileen Myles
“I’m scared
Sickened really
The passion I’ve felt for you
Still rocks my body...”
– Eileen Myles: Ink
“The moment we are living in is full of the groans and shrieks of a culture at...”
– Eileen Myles, The Importance of Being Iceland (134)
“There’s a lot I love about Inferno: as a person, a lesbo, a woman, a former New...”
– -Marie Lyn “Riese” Bernard, on the Emily Books tumblr
We are so excited and honored to have Inferno by Eileen Myles as the book of the month at Emily Books. You can even subscribe to Emily Books for the year, which gets you a new ebook every month as well as “priceless feelings of satisfaction,...
Style Like Eileen Myles
emilybooks:
by Marie Lyn “Riese” Bernard
My girlfriend got me an Eileen Myles t-shirt at this Sister Spit event in Oakland, it’s black with big purple letters reading “YOU’VE GOT THE STYLE EILEEN MYLES.” I wore it for the first time in Palm Springs to a Dinah Shore White Party which is a party where everyone wears white. And Dinah Shore is this gross annual lesbian “weekend” for girls who want...
October 2011
5 posts
3 tags
4 tags
“I wanted to be a disc jockey during some depressed period in college. […] The DJ...”
– Inferno (A Poet’s Novel) - Eileen Myles (via meandthestereo)
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abookaboutelephants:
“And Then the Weather...
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“…a woman is someone who grew up observing that a whole lot more was being...”
– Being Female - Eileen Myles
(via meandthestereo)
“and if you
don’t watch
me like a
hawk I won’t
be scared
I want...”
– my box, eileen myles
September 2011
2 posts
4 tags
“O Glory to everybody & everything
that we will fish again & again...”
– sympathy by eileen myles