February 2012
14 posts
“I hate to think
I ever functioned
as a lane
for someone else’s desire.”
– Eileen Myles, “Ponder”
From Not Me.
(via queermyquery)
“Come here
and share the rain
with me. You.
Isn’t it wonderful to hear
the...”
– Eileen Myles, “And Then the Weather Arrives”
From Not Me.
(via queermyquery)
“Let’s drink buckets
of coffee. Let’s
imagine ourselves
all fired up
for...”
– Eileen Myles, “Keats & I”
From Not Me.
(via queermyquery)
EILEEN MYLES' SAT PREP QUESTION
importantthingsyouown:
QUESTION 1-MATH AND REASONING
In the 1970’s, Eileen is receiving a bottle of 84 amphetamine sulphate pills every month from her doctor in Queens. According to her book Chelsea Girls, she gives away 6, she uses 16 as payment for owed money, keeps 18 for herself and sells the rest. If Eileen paid $35.00 to the have the prescription filled, and her gross profit is $100. What...
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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…