Here are images seized from urban life's experimental flow. Illuminating these densely and intensely alive new poems is an eloquent and revealing prose essay, "The Lesbian Poet", wherein Myles addresses the sources of her art, paying homage to her favorite living poets and early influences, and spelling out her own vitalist / proprioceptive aesthetic: "I think we all write out poems with our metabolism, our sexuality, for me a poem has always been an imagined body of a sort, getting that down in time, it moves this way and that, it is full of its own sense of possibility".
With agility, grace and speed, Eileen Myles explores poetic possibilities, stretching linguistic boundaries while hungrily searching for the taste of life's quick core. "I have this compulsion to live no matter what..."
- ISBN13 9781574230321
- Publish Date 1 March 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 193
- Language English