Sep 11, 2017 myles wrote cool for you at the end of the nineties, looking back on the fifties and sixties. Plot doesnt interest me that much, but time travel does, eileen myles laconically told nate lippens in the stranger after the first publication of her first novel, cool for you, in 2000. Calling cool for you a nonfiction novel, myles explains. Its a representation of the story, its not the story. Read inferno by eileen myles for free with a 30 day free trial. Its hard to think about eileen myles without being overwhelmed by her reputation as a badass. A poem says i want i think a poem really is a statement of desire. We add programming every month with audio and video content to our event archives. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Sep 11, 2017 cool for you is the story of its protagonists desire to break free of those small spaces, to carve out a larger freedom for herself, from both the containments of gender and of genre. Eileen myles came to new york from boston in 1974 to be a poet. Publication date 2000 topics young women, young women publisher new york 100 suffolk st. Cool for you is the story of its protagonists desire to break free of those small spaces, to carve out a larger freedom for herself, from both the containments of gender and of genre.
Myless many honors include a guggenheim fellowship, four lambda literary awards, the clark prize for excellence in arts writing, as well as grants from creative capital nonfiction and the foundation for contemporary arts poetry, and the. By searching the biography section, youll find rich material on over 1,350 writers, poets, artists, and cultural thinkers. Myless sentences tilt and wobble like a living mind. The effortlessly cool authorpoet and michael have a candid, fascinating, emotionally raw discussion ranging from eileens life growing up in a religious home in cambridge, ma, myles approach to gender including eschewing the pronoun she for they, and, of course, their. September 26, 2016 on the television show transparent, created by eileen myles friend jill soloway, cherry jones plays a charismatic poet based on myles, and lily tomlins character in the 2015 film grandma, was based in part on myles, too. A recipient of a guggenheim fellowship in nonfiction, a creative capitalandy warhol foundation arts writers grant, four lambda literary awards, the shelley award from the poetry society of america, and the clark prize for excellence. Eileen myles born december 9, 1949 is an american poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. Eileen myles and cool for you profile in rolling stone. Instead, she becomes a poet and journeys through a series of lowend schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade beds. A bridge to the conesthetic world of experience by heikki piha anything by james baldwin world of echo by arthur russell upside recordsrough trade, 1986. Novelist dennis cooper has described myles as one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
And sign up for our podcasts so new programs can be delivered to you. A sagittarius, their twenty books include evolution poems, afterglow a dog memoir, a 2017 reissue of cool for you, i must be living twicenew and selected poems, and chelsea girls. Eileen myles, the poet and loudmouthed lesbian, which means mainstream invisible, as she described herself to the new york times, is hardly invisible anymore when the character of cherry jones is based on you in a golden globewinning series transparent, invisibility tends to fall away. I think part of what youre doing when youre doing something new is that you dont entirely know that youre doing it. Read chelsea girls by eileen myles for free with a 30 day free trial. I must be living twice, by eileen myles the new york times. After that night 27 years ago, i dont think i saw eileen again until january of 2009, when she came to a reading i did with michael lally. Eileen myles is a poet, novelist, performer and art journalist. Eileen myles came to new york from boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently a novelist, public talker and art journalist. Eileen myles is an actress and director, known for the odyssey 2006, verse, a murder mystery 2011 and transparent 2014. Instead, she becomes a poet and journeys through a series of lowend schools, pathetic jobs, and unmade. Cool for yous toughgirl narrator wants to be an astronaut.
Eileen myles was born in cambridge, massachusetts, on december 9, 1949, to a family with a workingclass background. Sep 26, 2016 on the television show transparent, created by eileen myles friend jill soloway, cherry jones plays a charismatic poet based on myles, and lily tomlins character in the 2015 film grandma, was based in part on myles, too. Eileen myles, punk poet, on trump, capitalism, art, poetry. Eileen myles in 1992, myles campaigned as americas first openly female writein presidential candidate.
Alohairish trees is a collection of new and old poems by eileen myles, many of which have. Their twenty books include afterglow a dog memoir, a 2017 reissue of cool for you and i must be living twicenew and selected poems, and chelsea girls. Like most memoirs, its moving, and often sad, but where other books devolve into wee wistful prettiness, cool for you stays rigorous like a breaststroke, performed again, and again, and again. Myles wrote cool for you at the end of the nineties, looking back on the fifties and sixties. Dec 27, 2015 maybe youre not cool enough to get it, or maybe your not getting it is the essence of the joke.
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, eileen myles transforms her life into a work of art. Read chelsea girls online by eileen myles books free 30day. They attended catholic schools in arlington, massachusetts, and graduated from umass boston in 1971. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Combine the current recognition with a 1992 presidential race myles ran as an openly female. Nov 14, 2017 eileen myles was michael ian blacks guest on a recent episode of his how to be amazing podcast.
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Eileen myles and cool for you profile in rolling stone soft. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Maybe youre not cool enough to get it, or maybe your not getting it is the essence of the joke. Myles moved to new york city in 1974 with the intention of becoming a poet. In 2012, myles received a guggenheim fellowship to complete.
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Myless many honors include a guggenheim fellowship, four lambda literary awards, the clark prize for excellence in arts writing, as well as grants from creative capital nonfiction and the foundation for contemporary arts. Eileen myles s cool for you rocks so hard it hurts. Do you know what the message of western civilization is. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break. Eileen myles a literary speakers agency blue flower arts. Effectively brings vague feelings into sharp relief with surprising imagery and lighter moments of mockery reveal the contradictions in human behavior. Widely renowned, poet, novelist, performer, and art journalist, eileen myles is a.
They moved to new york city in 1974 to be a poet, and subsequently a novelist, art journalist, and writer of libretti. Looking for resources for your students, patrons, audiences, and communities. Nov 01, 2000 eileen myles is a poet, novelist, performer and art journalist. The table shook i can do better than this and shambled to the kitchen to the scene of. Marks church in manhattan in 1982, focusing on the work of the great ted berrigan. Oct 25, 2018 eileen myles is the author of more than twenty books, including afterglow a dog memoir, inferno a poets novel, chelsea girls, and cool for you.
Eileen myles on writing and social media the creative. Myles quickly became part of the reading, publishing and performance scene in the east village, editing dodgems in the late 70s and becoming part of the community of st. Jan 05, 2018 eileen myles is an estuary of a writer. Dont cry for robert lowell whats charming and confounding about eileen myles is. Collins, skies 2001, on my way 2001, cool for you novel, 2000.
This poem has that subtle gentle that your critics talked about and love the fact that this lady is squeezing the sweetness out of life so visual and poignant, so symbolic without getting it shoved in your face. Cool for you s toughgirl narrator wants to be an astronaut. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. Oct 14, 2015 its hard to think about eileen myles without being overwhelmed by her reputation as a badass. The book focuses in particular on the women in myles family, and the ways in which a society traps.
Myles has long excelled at capturing outsiderness, and feelings of being lost and. Join facebook to connect with eileen myles and others you may know. Introduction plot doesnt interest me that much, but time travel does, eileen myles laconically told nate lippens in the stranger after the first publication of her first novel, cool for you, in 2000. Grainy and stripped, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of. Last year was completely weird for mei just started to turn up, and it wasnt even about me, myles says. Myles relentlessly questions, analyzes, and even loathes the self, combining fanciful reveries with non sequitur in the new york school style.
Writer eileen myles on assembling a collection of poems. Lannan foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired native activists in rural indigenous communities. Youre paying more attention to the rhythm than the thing that youre saying, so theres a lot of extra language hanging outside the building that you sort of allow to be. Writer eileen myles on assembling a collection of poems the.
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